backwoods 的詞源
backwoods(n.)
"backwoods",指1709年北美英語中的“有樹木或部分未開墾和未定居的偏遠地區”; 參見 back(adj.)+ wood(n.)的意思是“森林地帶”。作爲形容詞,始於1784年。
BACKWOODSMEN. ... This word is commonly used as a term of reproach (and that, only in a familiar style,) to designate those people, who, being at a distance from the sea and entirely agricultural, are considered as either hostile or indifferent to the interests of the commercial states. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]
BACKWOODSMEN。...這個詞通常被用作一種指責的術語(只在熟悉的風格中使用),用來指代那些遠離海洋、完全 agricultural 的人,被認爲是對 commercial 州的利益敵對或漠不關心的人。[約翰·皮克林(John Pickering),《美國獨有的詞彙或短語的收集》,波士頓,1816年]
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