| 词汇 | cape caud |
| 词源 | Cape Caud. Often heard on Cape Cod as a pronunciation of the place-name. Thoreau called Cape Cod “the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts.” The place was named by English navi- gator and colonizer Captain Bartholomew Gosnold on his voy- age to the New World in 1602 when “Neere this Cape . . . we tooke great store of Codfish . . . and called it Cape Cod.” |
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