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讓我們一起看一看世界五大洋的語言根源吧。首先，表示海洋的詞彙ocean是怎麼來的呢?這個詞彙來自拉丁語中的希臘詞彙ōkeanos，這個詞彙的含義是“圍繞著地球的偉大河流”。Ocean這個詞最初表示整個水體，古希臘人認為大陸是單片的土地，水體圍繞著整個大陸。後來，ocean被用來與內陸海sea作區分,如地中海(字面上為“在土地的中間”)。
Indian Ocean
印度洋
As (linguistically) it’s the least interesting ocean: it is named simply because it is to the south of India.
這是最普通的海洋的命名，僅僅因為它在印度南面。
Pacific Ocean
太平洋
If you’re wondering whether there’s a link between Pacific and pacify, then you’re not wrong. The name of the ocean was originally a specific use of pacific, meaning ‘peaceful’ or ‘characterized by calmness’. Pacific Ocean derives from Mar Pacifico, the name given in Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish to the body of water in allusion to the calm seas experienced by Ferdinand Magellan on first reaching it in 1520.
如果你想知道太平洋和pacify(安撫/平靜)之間的是否有關聯,那麼你的猜測是正確的。海洋的名字最初是pacific的特定使用,表示“和平”或“以冷靜為特點”。Pacific Ocean表達來源於詞彙Mar Pacifico,該詞彙由葡萄牙,義大利和西班牙興起，原因是費迪南德麥哲倫於1520年首次航線中發現它的水面較為平靜。
Atlantic Ocean
大西洋
Atlantic comes from the Greek Atlantikos, from Atlas, the Titan of Greek mythology who supported the heavens with his great strength. (His image appeared as a frontispiece to early collections of maps in a volume, leading to the modern use of the word atlas.) The term Atlantic originally referred to the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, and hence to the sea near the west African coast, and was later extended to refer to the whole ocean.
大西洋來源於希臘詞Atlantikos,來自阿特拉斯,希臘神話中憑藉自己的神力撐起天空的巨人。 (他的形象出現在早期圖集的卷首插畫中,導致現代使用atlas這個詞。)Atlantic一詞最初指的是北非的阿特拉斯山脈,因此也指西非海岸附近的海域,後來atlantic擴充套件到指整個海洋。
Arctic Ocean
北冰洋
The Arctic Ocean, unsurprisingly, surrounds the Arctic; that is, the regions around the North Pole. Arctic conceals its origins rather more successfully; it comes from the Greek arktos, meaning ‘bear’ – and also ‘Ursa Major’ and ‘pole star’. The connection between bear and star comes from the story in Greek mythology that the nymph Callisto was turned into a bear and placed as a constellation in the heavens by Zeus.
北冰洋,不出所料,圍繞著北極圈(北極圈指北極周圍的地區)。Arctic這個詞更成功地隱藏它的起源,它來自希臘詞arktos,意思是“熊”,也可表示“大熊星座”和“北極星”。熊和星之間的`聯絡來源於希臘神話中的,女神卡利斯托被宙斯變成了一隻熊在天空之變成一座星座。
Antarctic Ocean
南冰洋
The Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, is defined in opposition to the Arctic: Antarctic simply means ‘opposite to the Arctic’. Both Antarctic Ocean and Southern Ocean are in common use as terms, and were originally used in reference to this body of water around the same time, albeit different centuries. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) currently dates Antarctic Ocean to 1699 and Southern Ocean to 1702.
南冰洋,也被稱為Southern Ocean(南大洋),這個詞產生源於與Arctic(北極)相對:antarctic僅僅表示“北極圈的反方向”。Antarctic Ocean和Southern Ocea都是常用的表達,最初用於表示海洋的時間儘管在不同的世紀，但大致相同,。《牛津英語詞典》(OED)目前追溯到的Antarctic Ocean的使用在1699，Southern Ocean可追溯到1702年。
