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Columbus

n. 哥伦布（美国一座城市）；哥伦布（意大利航海家）

英文词源

Columbus: his name is Latinized from his native Italian Cristoforo Colombo, in Spanish Christobal Colon.
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else, and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. [S.E. Morison, "The Oxford History of the United States," 1965]

实用例句

1. Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World in the Santa Maria.: 克里斯托弗·哥伦布从圣玛丽亚启航前往新大陆。

2. Building a memorial to Columbus has been his lifelong dream.: 为哥伦布建一座纪念碑是他一生的梦想。

3. the quincentenary of Columbus's voyage to America: 哥伦布航海到达美洲的500周年纪念日

4. The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.: 哥伦布竖蛋这个真伪不明的故事十分有趣.

5. Columbus had not realised that this new land was not India.: 哥伦布当时还没有认识到这块新大陆不是印度.

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