Dark Continent

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. Africa. dated,informal,offensive,sometimes
    — De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Bey of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing the isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.

词形变化

the Dark Continent canonical

词源

A Victorian nickname, referring to the fact that little was known in the West about the interior of the continent.
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