Manhattan
/mænˈhætən/- an island near the mouth of the Hudson River forming part of the city of New York. The site of the original Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, it is now a borough containing the commercial and cultural centre of New York City.曼哈顿(纽约市一行政区, 是哈得孙河口一岛, 原为荷兰人的定居点, 称为新阿姆斯特丹, 现为纽约市的商业和文化中心)。
词源
named after the Algonquin tribe from whom the Dutch settlers claimed to have bought the island in 1626.