英语词汇timbuktu的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Timbuktu. “In popular imagination, the word Timbuktu is a trip of three syllables to the ends of the earth,” Lila Azam Zan- ganeh writes in the New York Times (April 24, 2004). She goes on to describe this West African city as “a slumbering and decrepit citadel at the southern edge of the Sahara, in Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world.” But in addition to its use as the synonym for a distant remote place, the middle of nowhere (“Where are you taking us to—Timbuktu?”) and its widespread poverty today, Ms. Zanganeh reminds us that the legendary city was in the 11th century a great center of learning and gold trading. Its name is often spelled Timbuctoo, especially in de- scribing a faraway place.

词汇	timbuktu
词源	Timbuktu. “In popular imagination, the word Timbuktu is a trip of three syllables to the ends of the earth,” Lila Azam Zan- ganeh writes in the New York Times (April 24, 2004). She goes on to describe this West African city as “a slumbering and decrepit citadel at the southern edge of the Sahara, in Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world.” But in addition to its use as the synonym for a distant remote place, the middle of nowhere (“Where are you taking us to—Timbuktu?”) and its widespread poverty today, Ms. Zanganeh reminds us that the legendary city was in the 11th century a great center of learning and gold trading. Its name is often spelled Timbuctoo, especially in de- scribing a faraway place.
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