Columbia

英 [k?'l?mb??] 美[k?'l?mb?r]

暢通詞匯

Columbia: poetic name for United States of America, earlier for the British colonies there, 1730s, also the nation's female personification, from name of Christopher Columbus (also see Colombia) with Latin "country" ending -ia. A popular name for places and institutions in the U.S. in the post-Revolutionary years, when former tributes to king and crown were out of fashion: such as Columbia University (New York, U.S.) founded in 1754 as King's College; re-named 1784. Also District of Columbia (1791, as Territory of Columbia); "Hail, Columbia" (Joseph Hopkinson, 1798), Barlow's "Columbiad" (1809).

1. Columbia recently resigned the band for a cool $30 million.: 哥倫比亞唱片公司最近以3,000萬美元的高價再次簽下這個樂隊。

2. Vicky and Gary attended the graduation exercises at Columbia.: 維基和加里參加了哥倫比亞大學的畢業典禮。

3. Columbia was a young city compared to venerable Charleston.: 與歷史悠久的查爾斯頓相比，哥倫比亞是個年輕的城市。

4. Columbia Pictures paid him a six-figure sum for the film rights.: 哥倫比亞影業公司付給他一筆6位數的電影版權費。

5. This morning's launch of the space shuttle Columbia has been delayed.: 原定今早“哥倫比亞”號航天飛機的發射已被推遲.