n. 极北之地;古人相信存在于世界北端的国家
Thule 极北之地
来自希腊语 Thyle,古希腊传说中不列颠以北航行六天后所到达的陆地,受限于当时的地理知 识和有限的古文献资料,具体位置不详,现学者估计为冰岛或北欧一带。引申词义极北之地。
The barbarians showed us where the sun set. For it happened in those places that the night was extremely short, lasting only two or three hours; and the sun sunk under the horizon, after a short interval reappeared at his rising." [Pytheas]The name was given to a trading post in Greenland in 1910, site of a U.S. air base in World War II.