pan-american

/ˌpæn əˈmerɪkən/ (bre, ipa) · /ˌpæn əˈmerɪkən/ (ame, ipa) · /ˌpa-nə-ˈmer-ə-kən/ (ame, mw)

pan-american — 形容詞

1. covering or shared by every country in North America, Central America, and South

1.形容詞C1
釋義

泛美的

涵蓋整個美洲三大區域的

covering or shared by every country in North America, Central America, and South America taken together as one region.

例句

Iker chaired a pan-American conference on climate policy in Bogotá last spring.

Iker 去年春天在波哥大主持一場泛美氣候政策會議。

attributive: pan-American + noun (event/institution)

The Pan-American Highway runs from Alaska down to the southern tip of Argentina.

泛美公路從阿拉斯加一路延伸到阿根廷的最南端。

proper-noun collocation: the Pan-American Highway

同義詞
  • hemispheric

    broader — can refer to either half of the globe; pan-American is specifically the Americas

  • inter-American

    emphasises relations between American states; pan-American emphasises covering them all

文法句型

pan-American + noun

用法筆記

Almost always used attributively before a noun naming an event, organisation, agreement, route, or research scope. Often capitalised (Pan-American) when part of a proper name.

常見錯誤

❌The treaty is pan-American.
✅It is a pan-American treaty.
💡the adjective sits before the noun; predicative use after 'be' sounds odd.