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发表于 2006-3-28 11:16:57
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Word History: Our term china for porcelain or ceramic ware is a shortening of chinaware and probably china dishes. Although the word china is identical in spelling to the name of the country, there are 16th- and 17th-century spellings like chiney, cheny, and cheney that reflect the borrowing into English of the Persian term for this porcelain, chn.////// The Persian word and the Sanskrit word cn, “Chinese people,” which gave us the English name for the country, go back to the Chinese word Qín, the name of the dynasty that ruled China from 221 to 206 B.C.
我看他问的问题不是瓷器CHINA这个词语是从哪里来: porcelana viene del lenguaje pérsico, 如果他问的是CHINA 中国 是从古代 QIN代 传到PERSIA 从PERSIA传到欧洲大国。 CHINA的意思本来就是PORCELONA. 可是两个来源完全不同, 当同时经过PERSIA. |
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