词汇 | thule |
词源 | Thuleregion or island at northernmost part of the world, Old English, from Latin, from Greek Thyle " The barbarians showed us where the sun set. For it happened in those places that the night was extremely short, lasting only two or three hours; and the sun sunk under the horizon, after a short interval reappeared at his rising. [Pytheas] The name was given to a trading post in Greenland in 1910, site of a U.S. air base in World War II. updated on September 25, 2018 |
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