| 单词 | Northwest Passage |
| 释义 | Northwest Passage Northwest Pas.sage AHD: [p²s“¹j] D.J. [6p#s!d9]K.K. [6p#s!d9]NONE（无词性）A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic Archipelago of northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska. Sought by navigators since the 16th century, the existence of such a route was proved in the early 19th century, but the passage was not traversed until the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led an expedition across it in 1903 to 1906. The ice-breaking tankerManhattan was the first commercial ship to cross the passage (1969), after the discovery of oil in northern Alaska. 西北通道：从大西洋到太平洋的水路，穿过加拿大北部的北冰洋群岛，沿阿拉斯加北部海岸。从16世纪起海员们就开始寻找它，19世纪早期它已被证实存在，但是直到1903年至1906年挪威探险家罗德·亚孟森率一支探队穿越时它才被打通。破冰油轮曼哈顿号 是第一支通过此水道的商业船(1969年） |
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