| 释义 |
Pacific proper noun, singular (geographical name)—Examples:British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada—Mariana Islands in Pacific—General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war—COSCO Pacific Limited, major freight company—Wake Island (North Pacific Ocean)—Kamchatka (peninsula of Russian Pacific)—Nauru, volcanic island of Micronesia in southwest pacific—Pacific saury (Cololabis saira)—East Pacific rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California down Antarctica)—El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific—Republic of Palau or Belau (Pacific island nation)—the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)—(Winston) Lord (former assistant Secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs)—"Ring of Fire" (seismic zone surrounding the Pacific)—Pacific rim volcanic belt—Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong airline)—Fiji (tropical volcanic island in southwest Pacific)—battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific—Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945—Micronesia in southwest pacific—Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific—refers Zhenghe's 15th century expeditions to the Western Pacific—Tuvalu, island country in the SW Pacific (Tw)—Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization—APEC (Asia Pacific economic cooperation)—Shuangchengzi, former name of Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region—Vanuatu in south pacific (formerly New Hebrides)—El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean—Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region—Vanuatu in south Pacific (formerly New Hebrides) (Tw)— |