Middle East
英語 编辑
詞源 编辑
middle + east，基於Far East, Near East。最早見於19世紀後期。
專有名詞 编辑
- 中東
- 西南亞與東北非的地區
- 〈旧〉 近東與遠東之間的地區
- 1920 April 21, House of Commons, 引 Austen Chamberlain, “Budget proposals, Committee of Ways and Means”, 出自 The Parliamentary Debates, 卷 128，頁號 455:
- Well, what may happen in the Middle East? I agree there are uncertainties, but when he was condemning the policy of the Government with regard to the Turkish peace, had he thought for a moment of the financial effect of the policy which he advocated?
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
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參考資料 编辑
- “Middle East, n.”, OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2002
