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Poland is a country in the middle of Europe, with Germany on its west and on its east. Warsaw is the capital. About 38 million people live there. After the Second World War it was a Communist country, and the old Soviet Union had a strong hold on its government. In 1980 a workers' movement called Solidarity, led by Lech Walesa, began to push back; in 1989 Solidarity became the party in power. English puts the stress on the first part: PO-land. Though actually people mix the set of names: the country is Poland, a person is a Pole, and the language and adjective are Polish.
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組成Built in English as Pole + land, made to sit beside German Polen. Behind that is an old Polish name, Polanie, the Poles, literally people who live in the fields. The English form is from the 1560s.
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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。
Polandname/ˈpəʊ.lənd/
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A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
- After leaving the Soviet Union, we made a brief visit to one of the captive nations — Poland.[...]A quarter of a million people turned out that Sunday. Despite the presence of Soviet troops, and the fact that they share a common border with the Soviet Union, on that Sunday the people of Poland demonstrated dramatically not only their friendship for the United States but also their detestation of their Communist rulers and Soviet neighbors.
- The next stop was Warsaw, to meet with President Lech Walesa and emphasize my commitment to bringing Poland into NATO. Walesa had become a hero, and free Poland's natural choice for president, by leading the Gdansk-shipyard workers' revolt against communism more than a decade earlier. He was deeply suspicious of Russia and wanted Poland in NATO as soon as possible. He also wanted more American investment in Poland, saying the country's future required more American generals, "starting with General Motors and General Electric."
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A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
- The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.
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A surname.
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。