标题: Is California becoming America's Taiwan? [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 3-10-2018 10:35 标题: Is California becoming America's Taiwan? Joe Matthews, Is California becoming America's Taiwan? Sacramento Bees, Mar 10, 2018. http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/ca ... ticle204211204.html
My comment:
(a) When I glanced at the title, I thought it would be about earthquakes.
(b)
(i) The website of Zócalo Public Square says it was founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, and that its mission is to "connects people to ideas and to each other" -- by holding events and lectures.
(ii) zócalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zócalo
(iii) Spanish-English dictionary:
* zócalo (noun masculine): "1: (architecture) socle, base, footing; 2: (chiefly Mexico) public square, plaza" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zócalo
(iv) Consonant Z. StudySpanish.com, undated https://studyspanish.com/pronunciation/listen-and-repeat/letter_z
(Spain: pronounced like THink in English; Latin America: like s)
(c) "In Taichung's Literature Museum, I saw one of the most magnificent trees you'll see outside Sequoia National Park. It's a banyan."
(i) Taichung Literature Museum 台中文學館 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taichung_Literature_Museum
(opened in 2016 and operated by city government)
(ii)
(A) banyan 榕 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan
(" 'Banyan' often specifically denominates Ficus benghalensis (the 'Indian banyan'), which is the national tree of the Republic of India;" section 2 Etymology)
(B) banyan (n) https://www.etymonline.com/word/banyan