英语词汇argentina的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	argentina
词源	Argentina. The South American country takes its name from the Latin argentum, “silver,” after the precious metal Spanish explorers found there. Its official name, bestowed in 1816, is La Republica Argentina, “The Silver Republic.” One legend holds that llamas grazing on Mount Posi in 1545 up- rooted shrubs beneath which there was a vein of silver ore. Spanish prospectors noticed the ore, and the mining of silver began.
随便看	asap a scarborough warning ascham as cold as charity ascot as deaf as the mainmast as different as chalk and cheese as drunk as david-s sow as easy as shaking the drops off your john a serpent in one-s bosom as every schoolboy knows a shag on a rock ashes a shrimp short of a barbie asiatic hordes ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country a slice off the old ham as long as grass grows and water runs as mad as ajax as maine goes so goes the nation a small cup of tea as much chance as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest as one man

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