Columbus 的詞源
Columbus
他的名字是從他的意大利本名 Cristoforo Colombo 拉丁化而來,在西班牙語中爲 Cristóbal Colón。
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]
美洲是被一個偉大的海員意外發現的,他本來在尋找其他東西,接下來的五十年裏,大部分的探險都是希望能夠穿過或繞過它。[S.E. Morison,《美國牛津歷史》,1965年]
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