Guadalcanal

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英文释义

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  1. A town in Andalusia, Spain.
  2. A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.
  3. A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.; A battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese.

词源

From Spanish Guadalcanal. The Pacific island was named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وَادِي الْخَانَات (wādī l-ḵānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).
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