发信人: egg_june(Egg)
整理人: fredrink(2001-07-25 00:36:06), 站内信件
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CHINA
Interestingly, China is not a Chinese word.
The OED2 says that it is found in Sanskrit writings from about two thousand years ago, and appears in various forms in several Asian languages.
The earliest European usage is by Marco Polo, and the earliest cited English usage dates from 1555.
The American Heritage Dictionary gives the origin as being a corruption of the name of the Qin dynasty, which ruled China in the third century BC.
中国
有趣的是China（中国）一词并非中文字。
牛津英语字典（OED）上说，China一词最初出现在2000年前的梵文中，它以多种形式在几种亚洲语言中出现。
最早使用它的欧洲人是马可波罗，英国人最早引用可追溯到1555年。
美国基督教会词典给出了这词的来源，它是一个不正规的名字，指的是在公元前3世纪统治中国的秦朝的名称。
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