Tuvalu的词源
英文词源
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- disappoint
- disappoint: [15] Disappoint (a borrowing from French désappointer) originally meant ‘remove from a post or office, sack’ – that is, literally, ‘deprive of an appointment’; ‘A monarch … hath power … to appoint or to disappoint the greatest officers’, Thomas Bowes, De La Primaudraye’s French academie 1586. This semantic line has now died out, but parallel with it was a sense ‘fail to keep an appointment’, which appears to be the ancestor of modern English ‘fail to satisfy, frustrate, thwart’.
中文词源
Tuvalu意为“Eight Standing Together（八个在一起）”——图瓦卢语中，tu为“stand up”，valu为“eight”——16世纪第一波来到图瓦卢的欧洲人将位于图瓦卢的八个岛屿与环礁定位殖民地（现在图瓦卢有九个大岛）。
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