Main Street 的詞源
Main Street(n.)
"主要街道",1810年,來自 main(形容詞)+ street。後來引申爲“平庸、小鎮物質主義”的意思,這種意義在辛克萊·劉易斯的小說《大街》(1920年)出版後得到了加強。
But a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to dominate the earth, to drain the hills and sea of color, to set Dante at boosting Gopher Prairie, and to dress the high gods in Klassy Kollege Klothes. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicate to the sayings of Confucius. ["Main Street"]
但是,在一個國家裏,這個村莊正在努力成爲完全標準化和純粹化的,它渴望成爲繼維多利亞時代英格蘭之後世界上最主要的平庸之地,它不再僅僅是一個省級城市,不再是一個毛茸茸的、在樹葉陰影下安逸的無知之地。它是一個力量,試圖支配地球,排幹山丘和海洋的色彩,讓但丁爲高佛普雷(Gopher Prairie)站臺,並讓高貴的神穿上 Klassy Kollege Klothes。它自信滿滿,欺負其他文明,就像一個戴着棕色禮帽的旅行推銷員征服了中國的智慧,並在幾個世紀以來致力於孔夫子的拱門上貼上香菸廣告一樣。["大街"]
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