barnyard 的詞源
barnyard(n.)
“Barn-yard”(barn-yard)也於1510年代出現,由 barn 和 yard(n.1)組成。1920年代開始用於比喻粗魯或不文明的行爲。
The very speeches in which Jefferson and Lincoln spoke of their hope for the future are incomprehensible to most of the voters of that future, since the vocabulary and syntax of the speeches are more difficult—more obscure—than anything the voters have read or heard. For when you defeat me in an election simply because you were, as I was not, born and bred in a log cabin, it is only a question of time until you are beaten by someone whom the pigs brought up out in the yard. The truth that all men are politically equal, the recognition of the injustice of fictitious differences, becomes a belief in the fictitiousness of differences, a conviction that it is reaction or snobbishness or Fascism to believe that any individual differences of real importance can exist. [Randall Jarrell, "The Obscurity of Poetry," 1953]
傑斐遜和林肯在講話中表達對未來的希望,這些講話的詞彙和句法對大多數未來的選民來說是難以理解的,因爲這些講話的難度比選民們讀過或聽過的任何東西都要高。因爲當你在選舉中擊敗我,僅僅因爲你是在小木屋裏出生和成長的,而我不是,那麼你被某隻豬帶到院子里長大的人最終會被某個人擊敗。所有人在政治上平等的真理,對虛假差異的認識,變成了對差異虛假性的信仰,成爲了一種信念,即認爲相對重要的任何個人差異都是反動的、勢利的或法西斯主義的。[蘭德爾·傑勒爾,《詩歌的晦澀》,1953年]
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