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Mumbai is the huge city on India’s west coast, capital of Maharashtra, a major port and industrial centre, and the home of India’s big film industry (people outside India often call that Bollywood). English used to say Bombay; the official name became Mumbai in the 1990s. Though actually many people — including some Indians, and almost all older textbooks — still say Bombay. Using Mumbai is the more current choice in English, especially in the news and with Indian speakers.
孟買(中文名一直叫孟買,沒跟著改成 Mumbai 的新譯)
組成From Marathi मुंबई (mumbaī), from मुंबा (mumbā, the local mother goddess Mumba) + आई (āī, “mother”).
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。
Mumbainame/mʊmˈbaɪ/
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A megacity, the capital of Maharashtra, India, also known as Bombay.
- The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.
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。