- 1烏克蘭；首都基輔（近年英文拼法從 Kiev 改為 Kyiv，中文都是基輔）
Ukraine is a large country in eastern Europe, between Poland and Russia, with Kyiv as its capital. It was part of the Soviet Union until 1991, when it became independent. Since 2014, and much more heavily since 2022, it has been at war with Russia, which is why the name is in the news almost daily. Two points of English usage matter here. First, older books and older speakers say "the Ukraine", the way we say "the Netherlands" — but that older form suggested a region rather than a country, so Ukrainians dislike it, and careful speakers today simply say "Ukraine". Your students will still meet "the Ukraine" in old texts; it is not wrong English so much as out of date and touchy. Second, the capital's spelling has shifted. English used to write "" (from Russian) and now mostly "Kyiv" (from Ukrainian). Both spellings appear in dictionaries, and the change happened for political reasons, not spelling reasons.
組成The name probably comes from an Old East Slavic word built from u- plus krai (edge, border) plus -ina, giving something like "borderland" or "the land at the edge". Scholars argue about whether it really meant "borderland" or simply "country, land" — so treat the borderland story as likely, not certain.
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。
Ukrainename/juːˈkɹeɪn/
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A country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea. Capital and largest city: Kyiv.
- An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”
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。