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单词 Mountains of the Moon
释义

Mountains of the Moon

/ˈmaʊntɪnz əv ðə ˌmuːn/
noun
1A mountain range in central Africa, now identified with the Mount Ruwenzori mountain group between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • In early use, the mythical or suppositional source of the Nile..
2The type of a very remote place; further than one can imagine, the ends of the earth.

Origin

Late 16th century; earliest use found in untitled. From the plural of mountain + of + the + moon, after Hellenistic Greek τὸ τῆς σελήνης ὄρος (c a.d. 150 in Ptolemy Geography 4. 9. 3: on singular form see etymological note).

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