英语单词
Greenland是什么意思
Greenland
英 美 ['grinlənd]
- n. 格陵兰（北美东北的一大岛名，属丹麦）
英文词源
- Greenland
- translating Old Norse Groenland, so named by its discoverer (986 C.E.) because "it would induce settlers to go there, if the land had a good name":
Hann gaf nafn landinu ok kallaði Groenland, ok kvað menn þat myndu fysa þangat farar, at landit ætti nafn gott. [Islendingabok, 1122-1133]
See green (adj.) + land (n.). Related: Greenlander; Greenlandish.
双语例句
- 1. Africa is a continent, but Greenland is not.
- 非洲是大陆, 而格陵兰不是.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. That is more than the gross national product of Greenland.
- 这笔花销超过了格陵兰的年国民生产总值.
来自百科语句
- 3. When does the first ship leave Greenland in the spring?
- 开春以后,第一班离开格陵兰的客船是什么时候?
来自电影对白
- 4. The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso recently visited Greenland.
- 欧洲委员会的主席荷西,最近也去了格林兰岛.
来自互联网
- 5. The island of Greenland gives us a good example of climatic change.
- 格陵兰岛给我们一个气候变化的好例子.
来自互联网