New York的词源
英文词源
- New York




- former New Amsterdam (city), New Netherlands (colony), renamed after British acquisition in 1664 in honor of the Duke of York and Albany (1633-1701), the future James II, who had an interest in the territory. See York. Related: New Yorker. New York minute "very short time" attested by 1976.
中文词源
1664年,约克公爵(Duke of York)从荷兰人手中夺下了纽约。英王将这片土地赐予了他,并根据他在英国的原封地约克郡(Yorkshire),将这片原本叫做新阿姆斯特丹的地方命名为New York。
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