1. 1坦尚尼亞(東非國家)。注意兩岸譯名不同:台灣寫「坦尚尼亞」,中國大陸寫「坦桑尼亞」。首都是杜篤瑪(Dodoma),但最大城與實際政經中心是三蘭港/達累斯薩拉姆(Dar es Salaam)。吉力馬札羅山和塞倫蓋提草原都在這裡。

    Tanzania is a country in East Africa, on the Indian Ocean, with Kenya to the north and to the south. It was formed in 1964 when two places joined: Tanganyika on the mainland and the island of . Two facts about its cities often confuse people. The official capital is , inland, but most government offices and nearly all business are still in Dar es Salaam, the big port city on the coast — so Dar es Salaam is what people picture when they hear "Tanzania". Things students may already know without knowing they are : Mount , the highest mountain in Africa; the Serengeti, the where the great herds of migrate in the wildlife films; and Swahili, the language, which gives English the word safari and the song words hakuna matata. The people are and the adjective is . Say it tan-zuh-NEE-uh, with the stress on the NEE.

組成The name itself is a joining-together, made to match the joining of the two countries in 1964: Tan- from Tanganyika + Zan- from Zanzibar + -ia, the ending English uses for country names. So the name records its own history.

同家族的字

  • Tanzanianthe person from there, and the describing word
  • Zanzibarthe island whose name gives the -zan- in the middle
  • Australiashares only the country-name ending -ia, as do India, Malaysia, and Indonesia

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

Tanzanianame/ˌtæn.zəˈniːə/

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    A country in East Africa. Official name: United Republic of Tanzania.

    • Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania retreated between December 1986 and 2020, as well as glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.
    • A normally bustling border crossing between Tanzania and Malawi was noticeably quieter than usual on Thursday as a result of an escalating regional trade row.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。