Land of the Long White Cloud

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. New Zealand. poetic

词形变化

the Land of the Long White Cloud canonical

词源

Loose calque of Māori Aotearoa, from ao (“cloud, daytime, world”), tea (“white”), and roa (“long, tall”). Allegedly the first English-language mention was in the February, 1916, New Zealand School Journal (King, 2004). Probably a reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after an ocean voyage.
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