优才英语秀-Little Tuesday snack －Daniel｜张昕阳

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen! Thank you and welcome to our show tonight! Today,lets crack the American culture by figuring out(弄明白) how the name of America came into being(应运而生). Christopher Columbus(哥伦布)：A great Italian explorer(探险家), navigator(航海家), and colonizer(殖民者). In the year1492, Columbus completed a trip from Spain to the Americas, he landed at one of the Caribbean islands(San Salvador in Spanish) But, this guy right here always insisted（坚持） that where he landed was part of the Asian continent(亚洲大陆), as previously(之前的) described by Marco Polo(马可波罗) and other European travelers. And he called the local people Indians which they really were the genuine(真正的) native Americans. Columbus' refusal to landed on a “new world” made another guy famous，his name :Amerigo Vespucci(亚美利哥·维斯普奇),also an Italian sailor,He first confirmed（确认） the fact that a new continent(大陆) had been discovered and “The New World” was named America taking the feminine(阴性的) Latin(拉丁语) version of Vespucci's first name to honor him . Although didn’t get to name the continent, Columbus still enjoyed his honor, Washington DC which is the capital of United states of America, The letters “DC” stands for “district of Columbia” and there is also a country named “the republic of Columbia.” 如果大家有任何对节目的意见建议以及感兴趣的话题和知识欢迎给我们留言。 大家的支持就是我们动力的源泉！感谢！