英语词汇mesopotamia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	mesopotamia
词源	Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, an ancient region of southwest Asia in modern-day Iraq, was the home of many early civiliza- tions, including Babylonia. To the English speaker the word suggests mess, pot, or something of that order, yet there is a nice story about it: The British actor George Whitefield’s voice was so masterly that “he could make men either laugh or cry just by pronouncing the word Mesopotamia.”
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