America

英 [ə'merɪkə] 美 [ə'mɛrɪkɚ]

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解释

n. 美洲（包括北美和南美洲）；美国

※ 提供单词"America"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

America 美国

来自意大利探险家Amerigo Vespucci 的名字。

英文词源

America: 1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Modern Latin Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amerigo is more easily Latinized than Vespucci.

The name Amerigo is Germanic, said to derive from Gothic Amalrich, literally "work-ruler." The Old English form of the name has come down as surnames Emmerich, Emery, etc. The Italian fem. form merged into Amelia.

Colloquial pronunciation "Ameri-kay," not uncommon 19c., goes back to at least 1643 and a poem that rhymed the word with away. Amerika "U.S. society viewed as racist, fascist, oppressive, etc." first attested 1969; the spelling is German, but may also suggest the KKK.
It is interesting to remember that the song which is essentially Southern -- "Dixie" -- and that which is essentially Northern -- "Yankee Doodle" -- never really had any serious words to them. ["The Bookman," June 1910]

FREDONIA, FREDONIAN, FREDE, FREDISH, &c. &c.
These extraordinary words, which have been deservedly ridiculed here as well as in England, were proposed sometime ago, and countenanced by two or three individuals, as names for the territory and people of the United States. The general term American is now commonly understood (at least in all places where the English language is spoken,) to mean an inhabitant of the United States; and is so employed, except where unusual precision of language is required. [Pickering, 1816]

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例句和用法

1. He's touring South America at this moment in time.: 他此刻正在南美旅游观光。

2. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.: 美国在该地区拥有足够的火力发动持续的空中打击。

3. America imports about 190 million pounds of tea a year.: 美国每年进口大约1.9亿磅茶叶。

4. You lived on the farm until you came back to America?: 你回美国之前一直生活在农场吗？

5. Ford never desisted from trying to persuade him to return to America.: 福特从未停止过劝说他返回美国。