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Monaco is a very small country on the Mediterranean Sea, squeezed between France and Italy. It is a principality: a prince, not a king, is the head of the country. Only a few tens of thousands of people live there, but it is famous far beyond its size. Rich people from other countries often choose to live there because taxes are very low. The best-known town inside it is Monte Carlo, with its casino and a famous car race. People from Monaco are called Monégasques. On a map it can look like a tiny piece of the French coast, and in some ways it behaves like one, but it is its own country.
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組成The name comes from Ancient Greek Mónoikos. That older name itself is of unknown origin (it may be Ligurian, an old local language). Later, people linked the place with Hercules, who had a temple there, and said the name meant he who dwells alone, as if from Greek mónos (alone) and oikeō (to live in a place). That story is old; it is not a sure origin.
原始詞典資料1 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。
Monaconame/ˈmɒ.nə.kəʊ/
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A city-state in Western Europe. Official name: Principality of Monaco.
- […]they determined to aſſayle the borough of Monaco, whiche Lucian Grimault poſſeſſed, eyther in regarde of a common hatred borne againſt all gentlemen of Genes, or els for that the borowe is of great importance for the citie, hauing his ſituation vpon the ſea in a place of great conueniencie: or at leaſt for certaine particular hatreds, ſince he to whome falleth the power and government of that place, abſteineth very hardly from pyracies and robbing by the ſea, the ſituation giving fauoar and oportunitie to ſuche actions: or laſtly, becauſe (as they ſuggeſted) that borough apperteined rightfully to the common weale.
- The Republick of Genoua poſſeſſeth the Eaſtern and Weſtern Coaſts of Genoua, formerly called Liguria, where are Genoua, Savona, Noli, Ventimiglia, Genoua's &c. 2. The Iſle of Corſe. That of Capaia. 4. The Marquiſate of Final, bought in 1712 from the Emperor for 1200000 Crowns; but the Principality of Monaco belongs to a particular Prince under the Protection of France; and that of Oneglia belongs to the Duke of Savoy.
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。