喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a name pinned to a piece of land in the Pacific — two long islands with many smaller ones around them. Once a name is pinned to a place, English lets it slide forward in front of a noun to say 'from there' (New Zealand wool), and it can also travel with what leaves the place: rabbits shipped out of those islands ended up carrying the name themselves.

可以想成一個名字，被釘在太平洋上的一塊土地上：兩座長長的大島，周圍散著許多小島。名字一旦釘住了地方，英文就讓它往前挪…更多收起可以想成一個名字，被釘在太平洋上的一塊土地上：兩座長長的大島，周圍散著許多小島。名字一旦釘住了地方，英文就讓它往前挪，站到名詞前面，用來說「那裡來的」，像 New Zealand wool。名字也可能跟著離開那裡的東西走：從那些島上運出去的兔子，後來就直接被叫做 New Zealand。

From the word’s history

The English name is a partial calque of Dutch Nieuw-Zeeland: 'new' was translated, and Zeeland — a Dutch province whose own name is zee 'sea' plus land — was respelled Zealand.

英文名字來自荷蘭文 Nieuw-Zeeland。New 是照意思翻過來的，Zeeland 則是借音改寫成 Zealand。Zeeland 是荷蘭的一個省，名字本身由 zee（海）加 land（陸地）組成。所以這個地名最底層的畫面，其實是「海上的陸地」，前面再加一個「新的」。

Wiktionary entry supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:40794828), etymology_text

One branch

太平洋上的那個國家，以及「那裡的」

這一組就是核心本身：先是地名，再是地名直接拿來修飾名詞。

noun · A2

A country in the Pacific Ocean, to the east of Australia. It is made up of two large islands, the North Island and the South Island, together with many smaller ones. Its capital city is Wellington.

紐西蘭

原始詞典資料5 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。

New Zealandname/njʉː ˈzɪələnd/

  • 1

    A country and archipelago of Oceania, to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Capital: Wellington.

    • The government of New Zealand is looking for a crew to lead the redevelopment of its research headquarters in Antarctica. Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12 structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar.
    • After two pylonless months, July's pylon comes all the way from the hills outside Wellington, New Zealand.
  • 2

    The Realm of New Zealand, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.

  • 3

    A western suburb of Derby, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3336).

  • 4

    A hamlet in Hilmarton parish, north-central Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0177).

New Zealandnoun/njʉː ˈzɪələnd/

  • 1

    A rabbit of a breed that originated in California from rabbits imported from New Zealand.

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。