我看葡萄牙My Views of Portugal

上小學(xué)的時(shí)候，課堂上老師提到“葡萄牙”，我覺得這個(gè)國(guó)家的名字很有意思1，怎么會(huì)以“葡萄”命名？ 且是一個(gè)“老牌帝國(guó)主義國(guó)家”，在遙遠(yuǎn)的歐洲，曾經(jīng)航海很厲害，有很多殖民地，但日后衰落了。

When “Portugal” was mentioned by my primary school teacher in class， I was curious to know how come a country could be named after “grapes” （since “Portugal” in Chinese is pu tao ya， and pu tao share the same characters as “grapes”）. And I was told that it is an “old imperialist country”， located in faraway Europe， which used to be an important maritime power with many colonies in the past but has been in decline for a long time.

后來(lái)我有幸到澳門一所大學(xué)任教，走進(jìn)了這座曾被葡國(guó)占領(lǐng)了四百余年的城市。（剩余7007字）