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Euroland is an informal name for the group of European countries that use the euro as their everyday money. It is not a real country on a map, and no government puts this word on official paper. Politicians and news people used it a lot around 1998 to 2002, when the euro was just coming in. These days the tidier word is eurozone, but Euroland still turns up when a writer wants a lighter, almost name — as if those countries were one big land of euro coins. You can drive from Germany into Italy and stay in Euroland the whole way; you do not change money. That is the point of the nickname.
歐元區(口語、新聞暱稱,不是正式國名)
組成From euro + -land. People started saying it around 1998–2002, when the euro money was new. It is partly the old prefix Euro- (“Europe”) and, in later use, the name of the money itself plus -land.
原始詞典資料3 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。
Eurolandname
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datedrareEurope; the European Union (or formerly the European Economic Community).
- The banks might be small, or they might have recognizable names: Chase, Citicorp, Barclays, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Algemeine Nederland—all chartered Offshore and doing business in Euroland.
- No doubt she had to append numerous documents detailing how the proposal would speed the harmonisation of tariff structures, improve the efficiency of intergovernmental consultation processes, etc, etc, for that is the way these things are done in Euroland.
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datedrareThe group of countries in Europe that use the euro for currency.
- Marie lives in France, which is part of Euroland.
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。