You can think of New World as a name shouted from one side of the ocean. In the 1490s, ships came back from the west with news of land the mapmakers in Europe had not drawn yet, so they wrote it in as the new half of the world. Everything else this phrase does grows out of that line on the map: if a thing comes from that side — a monkey, a crop, a bottle of wine — it is New World; if it comes from the side Europe already knew, it is Old World.
可以想成:the New World 是從海的這一邊喊出來的名字。十五世紀末,船從西邊帶回消息,說那裡有一塊歐洲地圖還沒畫上的地。歐洲人就把它記成「世界新的那一半」。後來這個詞做的每件事,都像是從地圖上那條線長出來的——東西只要來自那一邊,不管是猴子、玉米,還是一瓶酒,就叫 New World;來自歐洲早就熟悉的那一邊,就叫 Old World。
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