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Klondike

英 ['klɔndaik] 美
  • n. 克朗代克地区(加拿大育空河流域的黄金产地);克朗代克河(加拿大流入育空河的一条河流)

英文词源


Klondike
tributary of the Yukon River in northwestern Canada, from Kutchin (Athabaskan) throndiuk, said to mean "hammer-water" and to be a reference to the practice of driving stakes into the riverbed to support fish traps. Scene of a gold rush after 1896.