Middle East
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词源 编辑
middle + east,基于Far East, Near East。最早见于19世纪后期。
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- 中东
- 西南亚与东北非的地区
- 〈旧〉 近东与远东之间的地区
- 1920 April 21, House of Commons, 引 Austen Chamberlain, “Budget proposals, Committee of Ways and Means”, 出自 The Parliamentary Debates, 卷 128,页号 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?
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
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参考资料 编辑
- “Middle East, n.”, OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2002