Columbus
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英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
借自拉丁语 columbus (“鸽子”)。Colombo的同源对似词。动词指的是这位意大利探险家的行为。
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专有名词[编辑]
Columbus
- 哥伦布，源自拉丁语的男性人名。
- 姓氏。
- Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506)，欧洲中世纪至近代的著名航海家、探险家与殖民者
- 多个美国地名。
同义词[编辑]
- (俄亥俄州首府)： Col's
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名词[编辑]
Columbus (复数 Columbuses)
动词[编辑]
Columbus (第三人称单数简单现在时 Columbuses，现在分词 Columbusing，一般过去时及过去分词 Columbused)
- (可能过时，俚语) 探索
- 1893, American Boys Afloat: Or, Cruising in the Orient，页号 150:
- "But, boy the powers of mud, I belayve you fellers mane to make an indepindint cruise in the Orient, and go Columbusing all over the ocean boy the way ye's talk!"
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- 1908, Out West, 卷 28，页号 90:
- Callous as the old mummy was about anything and everything save his pet hobby, archaeology, he would sit up and take notice of such a vision ; and Peter felt that, having Columbused the discovery, he had the better right to it.
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- 1908, Sunset, 卷 20，页号 271:
- To the west of the river lay the country in which I went Columbusing — the enchanted desert whose southern boundary was where the sky reached down and merged with the earth curve, and whose northern limit was the Harqua Hala range […]
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- 1921, Forest Leaves, 卷 15，页号 lxx:
- No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative.
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- (贬义，俚语，美国) 声称拥有某物（通常是被认为属于他人的发现）
- 2014, Justin Simien, Dear White People, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，页号 97:
- When his black friend tells him that many people knew about the bar before he did, his white friend retorts by saying that he “Columbused it”; i.e., discovered it for white people before a gaggle of hip white people flooded in.
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- 2014 7月 6, Brenda Salinas, “‘Columbusing’: The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New”, 出自 NPR[1]:
- Of course, there is no bouncer, but we can be careful not to Columbus other culture's traditions.
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Columbus