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    Antipodean is a word, used mostly in British English, for people and things from Australia and New Zealand. You can say an Antipodean writer, Antipodean English, or an Antipodean winter (which is summer in Britain — that is the joke hiding in the word). It can name a person too: “He is an Antipodean.” It sounds a bit like old newspapers, a bit “from the other side of the world looking back.” Australians and New Zealanders may use it of themselves, sometimes with a smile; they may also just say Australian or Kiwi. It is usually written with a capital A in this place sense. Though actually, the older idea was anyone living on the opposite side of the Earth from you. In practice, from Britain, that came to mean Australia and New Zealand.

    澳紐的、澳洲與紐西蘭的(多為英式說法)

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組成From Antipodes + -an (a person or thing from that place). The older picture is “people with their feet opposite yours,” on the other side of the world.

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  • Antipodesthe place-name this adjective belongs to: Australia and New Zealand, seen from the other side of the world

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antipodeanadj/ænˌtɪp.əˈdi.ən/

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    Diametrically opposed.

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    Relating to the antipodes, or situated at opposite sides of the Earth.

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    informalOf, or pertaining to, Australia or New Zealand.

    • So there is a certain sense of achievement just in arriving in Australia—a pleasure and satisfaction to be able to step from the airport terminal into dazzling antipodean sunshine[…]
    • Indeed, many antipodean teens are joining Yope, a new photo-sharing app geared toward Gen Z.

antipodeannoun/ænˌtɪp.əˈdi.ən/

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    An inhabitant of the antipodes.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。