英:[ɒˈstreɪliə]
美:[ɔːˈstreɪliə]
英:[ɒˈstreɪliə]
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[地名][大洋洲]澳大利亚,澳洲;澳元;
Aus·tral·ia
aw streI li
geographical name
continent of the eastern hemisphere southeast of Asia and south of the Equator area 2,948,366 square miles (7,665,751 square kilometers)
or Commonwealth of Australia dominion of the Commonwealth of Nations including the continent of Australia and the island of Tasmania; capital Canberra area 2,988,902 square miles (7,741,220 square kilometers), population 23,470,000 see also australian
源自拉丁语 Terra Australis(16世纪),由 australis “南方的”和 -ia 组成。自2世纪以来,一个假想的南方大陆,称为 terra australis incognita,曾被提出。荷兰探险家称这个新发现的大陆为 New Holland; 现在的名称是由马修·弗林德斯于1814年提出的,作为对 Terra Australis 的改进,因为它“更符合耳朵的感觉,并且与其他大陆的名称相似”[“Voyage to Terra Australis”]。1817年,拉克兰·麦夸里州长在阅读了弗林德斯的建议后,开始在官方通信中使用这个名称。最终的来源是拉丁语 auster “南风”,因此,“南方的国家”(见 austral)。
1 In addition, food production never arose indigenously in Australia.
2 That contrasts sharply with the situation in Australia, the Americas, and South Africa, where European settlement was numerous and lasting and replaced the original native population over large areas.
3 Even today, with Eurasian crops and with trucks and railroads to transport produce, food production in Australia remains a risky business.
4 Polar bears wrestle with elephants in Australia and penguins teach Zulus how to play bagpipes.
5 How, he wondered, did marsupials travel from South America to Australia?
6 He’d sometimes talk about Australia or Alaska, but he never took any action, and when we asked Mom, she’d start singing some song about how her get up and go had got up and went.
7 So, in places like Australia and the Americas, not only do most of the people speak European languages, much of their music also sounds Western.
8 She had to admit he was a strange little creature, with his squeaky voice and with Australia on his eye and with the way he was several inches shorter than other five-year-old boys.
9 I was just starting to wonder if they even had Chinese restaurants in Australia, when Dad said, “Oh, hey. I just read about something you might be interested in.”
10 And these skills enabled them to reach and settle Australia.
11 While the Irukandji lives in large numbers off the coast of Australia, Irukandji-like symptoms have been experienced as far north as the British Isles, and in Hawaii, Florida, and Japan.
12 It was the first time any human had managed to leave the Afro-Asian ecological system—indeed, the first time any large terrestrial mammal had managed to cross from Afro-Asia to Australia.
13 The dispute could destroy Australia's hard-won reputation for industrial stability.
这场纠纷可能会让澳大利亚劳资关系稳定这一来之不易的名声毁于一旦。
14 I was going to get myself to Australia.
15 However, at least eight channels up to 50 miles wide still remained to be crossed in getting from Borneo or Bali to Pleistocene Greater Australia.
16 I have just learned that in many small and some medium-size hospitals in the US, radiologists are outsourcing reading of CAT scans to doctors in India and Australia!!!
17 There was another thing I needed to travel to Queensland, Australia, at the edge of the Great Barrier Reef.
18 In Australia, people have seen spiders eat birds, centipedes eat snakes, snakes eat crocodiles, crocodiles eat children.
19 When I answered, I heard the voice of a cousin I had reconnected with—a Lost Boy now living in Sydney, Australia.
20 He stumbles from the house, up the lane, and doesn’t stop till he reaches Melbourne in Australia.