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单词 spice-islands
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spice-islands
spice-islands n. the islands in the East from which spices were imported.
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1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶5 My Friend Sir Andrew calls..the Spice-Islands our Hot-Beds.
1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. xxxiv. (note) To find the spice islands of the East was his [Columbus's] proposal at the court of Spain.
1834 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 10 July Like breezes blown from spice-islands of Youth and Hope.
1890 Cassell's Pop. Educ. IV. 156/2 Malaysia..includes..Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes, and the Moluccas or Spice Islands.
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