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/əˈmerɪkə/
The United States of America, or more broadly, the large area of land including North and South America.
美國；美洲
核心畫面
The name of a place — most often the United States, sometimes the whole double continent of North and South America.
可以想成一個地名：最常指美國，有時也指北美洲加南美洲整片大陸。同一個名字，看上下文是指那個國家，還是整片美洲。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Americaname/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/
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A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
- The results of my examination ... for the most part allied to plants of the cooler part of America, or the uplands of the tropical latitudes ...
- the Marsupials or pouched animals, being found throughout the continent of America, from the United States to Patagonia
- 2
A country in North America; in full, United States of America.
- For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
- So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.
- 3
A female given name.
- 4
A town in Limburg, Netherlands.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。