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The Lusitania was a large British passenger ship. In 1915, during the First World War, a German submarine sank it off the coast of Ireland. About 1,195 people were killed, and some of them were Americans. That shocked many people in the United States and made more of them feel that Germany was a danger, and that America might have to fight. Though actually, the United States did not enter the war in 1915. It waited until 1917. The sinking was one loud reason feelings changed, not a switch that started the fighting the next day. Germany said the ship was also carrying war goods. There was some ammunition in the cargo, but it was still a passenger ship full of civilians, and that is why the sinking stayed famous and bitter. The name is much older than the ship: Latin Lūsītānia was the Roman name for a land in the west of Iberia, roughly where Portugal is. The liner was named after that old place-name.
盧西塔尼亞號（1915 年被擊沉的英國客輪）
組成From Latin Lūsītānia, the Roman name for a western Iberian land, roughly Portugal. The ship took that old name.
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Lusitanianame/luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/
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An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
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archaicPortugal.
- Yet this, as well as most of the forts in the Moluccas, was originally built by the Portuguese themselves. Oh! Lusitania, how art thou fallen!
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historicalThe RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I.
- The anti-German riots which erupted simultaneously in many countries in response to the torpedoing of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915 reflected shifts in the status of minorities in multi-ethnic societies at a time of escalating nationalist emotions.
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。