Atlantis 亞特蘭提斯（古希臘傳說裡沉入大西洋的島）。台灣寫「提」，中國大陸較常寫「蒂」（亚特兰蒂斯）。不是美國城市亞特蘭大。｜字脈

1亞特蘭提斯（古希臘傳說裡沉入大西洋的島）。台灣寫「提」，中國大陸較常寫「蒂」（亚特兰蒂斯）。不是美國城市亞特蘭大。
Old Greek stories tell of Atlantis, a great island west of , where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean. After an earthquake, the island sank and was lost under the water. A Greek writer, , is the one who wrote the story down. Though actually, nobody can buy a ticket there: it is a legend, not a place on a school map. Some people hear it as a warning about a proud land that fell. Some still look for ruins under the sea. The name comes from Atlas, the giant who held up the sky; the Atlantic Ocean belongs to the same family of names.

core核心畫面

組成From Ancient Greek Atlantís, from Átlas (Atlas). Atlas may come from a prefix meaning together plus a root meaning bear / endure, or it may be older than Greek; scholars are not sure.

同家族的字

Atlasthe giant whose name Atlantis is built from
Atlanticthe ocean named in the same Atlas story-world, west of which Atlantis was said to lie
Atlantaa later city name taken from Atlantic — a real place, not the legend

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Atlantisname/ətˈlæntəs/

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A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
- How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!
- I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.

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