| 单词 | southern cone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSouthern Cone Southern Cone n. (also with lower-case initials) [after Spanish Cono Sur (mid 20th cent. or earlier)] the region of South America south of the Tropic of Capricorn, comprising the countries of Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, and sometimes also Brazil and Bolivia. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [noun] > other specific regions Magellanic regions1772 terra firma1772 Southern Cone1960 1960 Christian Sci. Monitor 24 June 17/1 As the maps are brought out and population and other statistical data are analyzed for the area of the ‘Southern Cone’—the name emerging from the geographical shape of this new Common Market. 1978 Guardian Weekly 5 Mar. 13/1 Banzer himself had succeeded in avoiding all out repression of the sort prevailing in the continent's ‘southern cone’. 2008 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 102 820 The political landscape of the Southern Cone has shifted dramatically since the time of the Commission's first amnesty law cases. < as lemmas |
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