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源自意大利語 ,根据古希臘語 (arkhi-, “主要的”) + (pélagos, “海洋”)构成,为爱琴海的名称。爱琴海有很多岛屿,而“Arcipelago”原是指爱琴海的专有名词,后泛化到可以指代有很多岛屿的海,后面又到这种海中的岛屿。
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- (現罕用) 爱琴海
- 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 413:
- [I]n his imagination he had settled his route, through Holland and France to Sicily, which he had long wished to see, and from thence to the Archipelago […] 。
- 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 413:
- (集合名词) 群岛,一组岛屿
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- (引申义) 像群岛一样散布的物体
- The Gulag Archipelago
- 古拉格建筑群
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