spain
spain — 名詞
1. a country in southwestern Europe that shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal
西班牙
西南歐國家,位在伊比利半島
a country in southwestern Europe that shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal and has coastlines on both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
Lara spent her summer vacation traveling through Spain with her family.
Lara 暑假和家人走遍西班牙各地旅行。
country name used without article
Spain has beautiful beaches along its Mediterranean coast that attract millions of tourists every year.
西班牙的地中海沿岸有美麗沙灘,每年吸引數百萬遊客。
Spain as grammatical subject of a sentence
My cousin moved to Spain to teach English at a small school near Barcelona.
我的表姊搬到西班牙,在巴塞隆納附近的一所小學校教英文。
Felix and his classmates are planning a trip to Spain to practice their Spanish.
Felix 和他的同學正計劃去西班牙旅行,練習他們的西班牙語。
The village where my grandmother grew up is in northern Spain, near the mountains.
我奶奶長大的那個村莊在西班牙北部,靠近山區。
用法筆記
Most country names, including Spain, are used without the definite article 'the'. You say 'in Spain', 'to Spain', 'from Spain'. The article is only added when referring to a specific historical period or aspect ('the Spain of the 1920s').