Slave Island

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
    — “It’s very difficult to live, even a loaf of bread is expensive,” said Pereira outside his modest home in Slave Island, a poor enclave of the capital Colombo. “If we take one meal, we skip another.”

词源

From the fact that the place was used to hold African slaves by Portuguese colonizers.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary