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• Tai Lake

語源

Partial calque from Mandarin 太湖 (Tài Hú, “the Great Lake”).

発音

• IPA: /leɪk ˈtaɪ/

固有名詞

Lake Tai

1. a large freshwater lake west of Shanghai in eastern China
   • 1801, John Walker, The Universal Gazetteer‎, 3rd edition, London, →OCLC, page [2]:

     SOUTCHEOU, a city of the firſt rank, in the province of Kiangnan, in China, beautifully and agreeably ſituated on a river which communicates with the Lake Tai.

   • 1939, Hsiao-tung (費孝通) Fei, 江村經濟 [Peasant Life in China]‎, London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10:

     The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai.

   • 2020 July 15, David Stanway, “Residents at China's giant lake unfazed as rainfall breaks records”, in Giles Elgood, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Environment:

     At Lake Tai on the border of the wealthy coastal provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, water levels hit 4.49 metres on Wednesday, 0.69 metres above the official warning level, according to government data. […]
     Though still short of the 4.97-metre record set in 1999, Lake Tai is on the rise. Nearby Shanghai is already taking precautions, opening its sluice gates to discharge excess floodwaters.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lake Tai.

同意語

• Lake Taihu
• Taihu Lake

Further reading

• “Lake Tai”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Lake Tai” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tai Lake”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1864, column 2
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Tai Lake”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3085, column 1

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