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語源

Named after Robert Morrison.

固有名詞

Morrison Hill

1. A hill in Wan Chai, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
   • 1967, Gwenneth Stokes, John Stokes, “Hong Kong: Its Story in Brief”, in The Extreme East: A Modern History‎, Longman, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 395:

     Where today are Caroline Hill, East Point Hill, and Morrison Hill on which Hong Kong's first western school was built? Where are the bays which formerly indented the coastline of Hong Kong?

   • 2007, Michael Anthony Ingham, Mike Ingham, “"Suzie's World": from Wan Chai to Happy Valley”, in Hong Kong: A Cultural History‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     East of Morrison Hill and the rice paddies of Belcher Valley (named after himself by a rather conceited Captain Edward Belcher) were the godowns of the Jardine-Matheson company, situated roughly where the modern Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay now stands.

   • 2009 July 11, Jason Wordie, “Out and about”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May 2021‎:

     Hong Kong's most renowned European brothel operated during the interwar years just across from Morrison Hill, at the far end of Queen's Road East, run by a stately lady of shadowy origins named Ethel Morrison - it was rumoured that she took her professional surname from the hill across the way.

   • 2018 December 1, David Bellis, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, volume 2, Gwulo, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 104:

     When the project began, workers delivered the earth from Morrison Hill to the reclamation using small trucks that they pushed by hand.

Further reading

• “Morrison Hill”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.