Long Island

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˌlɒŋ ˈaɪlənd/    美 /ˌlɔŋ ˈaɪlənd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Long Island iced tea. informal
专有名词
  1. The biggest and longest island of the contiguous United States, located in the state of New York.
    — B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
  2. A district and long, thin island of the Bahamas.
  3. region of New York state consisting of Nassau County and Suffolk County, to the exclusion of Brooklyn and Queens (the parts of the island found in New York City).
    — After receiving a $2 million investment on the show, the company moved its headquarters from Queens to Long Island.
  4. An island of Antigua and Barbuda.
  5. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Synonym: Carpenter.

词形变化

Long Islands plural

词源

* (New York) Calque of Dutch Lange Eylandt, e.g. early 't Lange Eylandt alias Matouwacs.
* (Antigua and Barbuda) The island is named for its elongated shape.
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