| 单词 | latin america |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLatin America Latin America: those countries in Central and South America in which Spanish or Portuguese is the dominant language collectively; hence Latin American adj. and n. Latin League: a proposed association of Latin nations, advocated by the Spanish minister Castelar in 1884, to restore the balance of power in Europe, and check the increasing influence of Germany. Latin Union: the monetary alliance formed in 1865 by France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, and afterwards joined by Greece, its object being the adoption and maintenance of a uniform system of bimetallic coinage in each of these states, and the recognition by each state of the coins of the others as legal tender.extracted from Latinadj.n.Latin America a. Of or pertaining to those countries of Central, North, and South America in which Spanish or Portuguese is the dominant language, spec. as Latin America. Cf. Latin American adj. a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [noun] > countries where Spanish is spoken Latin America1890 1890 Reciprocity Treaties with Lat. Amer. (U.S. Dept. of State) 6 More than 87 per cent of our imports from Latin America are admitted free. 1900 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 17 Aug. 744/1 Everywhere in Latin America the [panama] hat is known under the name of ‘Jipijapa’ in honour of the city where its manufacture was first started. 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. June 358/2 The amount of British capital invested in the countries of Latin-America is very great. 1953 Time 19 Oct. 28/1 Latin America is in the midst of a ‘population explosion’. Its people are multiplying 2½ times as fast as the populations in the rest of the world. 1991 M. Hart in Hampson & Maule Canada among Nations After Cold War 91 From an economic perspective, the remarkable ‘apertura’ in Mexico marked a high point in this transformation of Latin America. < as lemmas |
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