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新大陆

xīn dà lù

3-character word Traditional 新大陸

What 新大陆 means

1. the New World
2. the Americas as opposed to the Old World {旧大陆|jiù dà lù} or Eurasia

The characters in 新大陆

• 新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 陆lù(bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)

Example sentences

• 哥伦布航行至遥远的西方，去寻找一个新大陆。
  Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.
• 哥伦布的发现新大陆法则：如果你在克里斯多福·哥伦布之前发现了某个东西，那么你所发现的是不存在的。
  Gēlúnbù de fāxiàn xīndàlù fǎzé: rúguǒ nǐ zài kè lǐ sī duō fú · Gēlúnbù zhīqián fāxiàn le mǒu gè dōngxi, nàme nǐ suǒfāxiàn de shì bù cúnzài de.
  Columbus's Law of Discovery states: If you discovered something BEFORE Christopher Columbus, then what you discovered does not exist.