Name: 為什麼世界上沒有一面旗幟是紫色的 (Why No Flag In The World Is Purple)
Uploaded: 2025-09-25T01:53:08.000Z
Duration: 3 min 1 s

基礎被動語態

Did you know that there is one forbidden color you will not find on any flag in the world?

你知道世界上有一種禁色是任何國旗上都找不到的嗎？

Let me take you on a trip all around the world to discover the truth about flags that their countries don't want you to know about.

讓我帶你環遊世界，去發現那些國家不想讓你知道的國旗真相。

When it's the World Cup or the Olympics and you see your flag, you start singing your anthem with your friends and you start feeling super proud.

在世界盃或奧運會期間，當你看到自己的國旗時，你會開始和朋友們一起唱國歌，你會感到無比自豪。

因為你們國家的國旗是獨一無二的。

And because it means something special to you.

For example, here in Brazil, the flag looks like the country.

例如，在巴西，國旗看起來就像一個國家。

It's green like the rainforest, yellow because of the gold they have, and blue like the sky.

它綠得像熱帶雨林，黃得像金子，藍得像天空。

Here in France, flags' colors represent the country's values.

在法國，國旗的顏色代表著國家的價值觀。

Or as they say, liberté, égalité, fraternité.

或者正如他們所說的，自由、平等、博愛。

In fact, that flag and those values got so popular that many countries started to copy it.

事實上，這面旗幟和這些價值觀已經深入人心，許多國家都開始效仿。

Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Romania, Mexico, and many others have three stripes as well.

意大利、愛爾蘭、比利時、羅馬尼亞、墨西哥和許多其他國家也有三條條紋。

In the same way, Ethiopia's flag was a huge influence all over Africa because Ethiopia is the one country that resisted the most against the colonizers.

同樣，衣索匹亞的國旗也對整個非洲產生了巨大影響，因為衣索匹亞是反抗殖民者最多的國家。

Another popular flag is the American one.

另一種受歡迎的旗幟是美國國旗。

Liberia basically copied it because it was founded by freed slaves from the U.S.

賴比瑞亞基本上照搬了它的做法，因為它是由從美國獲得自由的奴隸建立的。

Even Brazil had a flag that looked like this, but it only lasted four days.

就連巴西也曾有過這樣的國旗，但只持續了四天。

Over here in the Arab world, most flags are red, black, white, and green because they come from the one pan-Arab flag.

在阿拉伯世界，大多數旗幟都是紅、黑、白、綠四色，因為它們來自一面泛阿拉伯旗幟。

And that's the one they use to all rally and break free from the Ottoman Empire.

而這正是他們團結一致、擺脫奧斯曼帝國統治的標誌。

Other Arab countries like Algeria and Tunisia prefer to go with the crescent moon of Islam to pay tribute to their Muslim roots.

阿爾及利亞和突尼西亞等其他阿拉伯國家則更喜歡使用伊斯蘭教的新月形，以向其穆斯林根源致敬。

Likewise, in the land of the Viking, they're all having crosses on their flags because they're mostly Christians.

同樣，在維京人的國度，他們的國旗上都有十字架，因為他們大多是基督徒。

And that flag, Denmark's, is said to be over 800 years old, making it the oldest in the world.

據說，丹麥的國旗已有 800 多年的歷史，是世界上最古老的國旗。

And also, did you notice that all flags are rectangles except for three?

還有，你注意到除了三面旗幟外，其他旗幟都是長方形的嗎？

The Vatican flag and Switzerland's flag are squares, while Nepal's looks like this.

梵蒂岡和瑞士的國旗是正方形的，而尼泊爾的國旗則是這樣的。

No matter where you go, the one color you will not find on any flag is purple.

無論你走到哪裡，你都不會在任何旗幟上發現一種顏色，那就是紫色。

Because not so long ago, the only way to get some purple was from a tiny sea snail that you could only find in one small region of Lebanon.

因為在不久之前，獲得紫色的唯一途徑是從一種小海螺中獲得的，而這種海螺只能在黎巴嫩的一個小地區找到。

To create just one gram of purple, you needed more than 10,000 snails.

僅生產一克紫色的蝸牛就需要 10 000 多隻。

So no country could afford covering its entire flag with it.

是以，沒有哪個國家有能力用它來覆蓋整個國旗。

Your country's flag is part of who you are, and it's also part of your culture.

國旗是你身份的一部分，也是你文化的一部分。

And the beautiful thing is that no matter where you go in the world, you know that whenever you see it, you'll feel a little bit closer to home.

最美妙的是，無論你走到世界的哪個角落，只要看到它，你就會感覺離家更近了一些。