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/ˈeɪʒə/ · /ˈeɪʃə/
The largest continent in the world — one of the seven main areas of land. It covers the Middle East and everything between the Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, including India, China, Japan, and part of Russia.
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You can picture Asia as the name for the biggest single block of land on the map. Start at the Ural Mountains and walk east until you hit the Pacific — everything you crossed, plus the Middle East, India, China, Japan and a large part of Russia, sits inside that one name.
可以想成：把世界地圖攤開，最大的一塊陸地就用這一個名字蓋住。從烏拉山脈往東走，一直走到太平洋為止，中間走過的全部——…更多收起
可以想成：把世界地圖攤開，最大的一塊陸地就用這一個名字蓋住。從烏拉山脈往東走，一直走到太平洋為止，中間走過的全部——中東、印度、中國、日本，還有俄羅斯的一大半——都在這個名字底下。它指的是地理上的一塊地，不是一個國家，也不是一個政府，所以裡面裝著非常不一樣的語言、宗教和生活方式。原始詞典資料8 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。
Asianame/ˈeɪ.ʒə/
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The largest continent, located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
- All Aſia, which the Ancients divide into Aſia the Great and Aſia the Leſs, modern Computors part into five Diviſions, Perſia, the Turkiſh Empire, India, (to which they caſt in the adjacent Iſles) Tartary, and China.
- “A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyAn epithet of Athena.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyOne of the Nereids.
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astronomynatural-sciences67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
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A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
- And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.
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historicalAn ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD.
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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。