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Gibraltarn.

英 dʒi'brɔ:ltə | 美
中文n. 直布罗陀(海峡);冰砂糖
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Gibraltar1590s, ancient Calpe, captured 710 C.E. by Saracen leader Tariq, renamed Jebel el Tarik "the Mountain of Tarik," hence the English name. A British possession since 1704. Figurative of impregnability by 1856. Formerly also the name of a kind of rock-candy (1831).
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Gibraltar