Columbus
英 [kə'lʌmbəs]
美 [kə'lʌmbəs]
- n. 哥伦布（美国一座城市）；哥伦布（意大利航海家）
Columbus 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]
Columbus 双语例句
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。 来自柯林斯例句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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
来自《权威词典》
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》