Yankee
['jæŋki]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an American (especially to non-Americans).
(noun.) an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
(adj.) used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier) .
手打:鲁迪--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.
厄玛編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a citizen of the New England States in America: an inhabitant of the United States—also Yank (coll.).—ns. Yank′eedom the country inhabited by Yankees: Yankees generally; Yank′ee-Doo′dle a Yankee from a popular air—also adj.—adj. Yank′eefied.—n. Yank′eeism Yankee characteristics.
編輯:西娅
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a Yankee, foretells that you will remain loyal and true to your promise and duty, but if you are not careful you will be outwitted in some transaction.
校對:迈拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. In Europe an American. In the Northern States of our Union a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
校對:鲁珀特
例句/造句/用法:
- They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Yankee privateer Molasses. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I've given 'em the latest Yankee shine. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Soon the Canuck boys attacked the Yankee boys, and we were all badly licked. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- All this becomes such an insulation against new ideas that when the Yankee goes abroad he takes his environment with him. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- How did the Term Yankee Originate? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Sherman and I went together into a manufactory which had not ceased work on account of the battle nor for the entrance of Yankee troops. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Decimus Forthridge, of the American brig Independence, showed his Yankee pluck and resource in defeating an attack of Malay pirates with no other armament than fancy fireworks. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A few weeks afterward I received a letter from one of my London friends, who was a doubting Thomas, upbraiding me for coming so soon under the spell of the 'Yankee inventor. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He was so crestfallen that I believe if I had ordered him to leave the car he would have gone quietly out, saying to himself: More Yankee oppression. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Indeed when the troops in Fort Fisher heard the explosion they supposed it was the bursting of a boiler in one of the Yankee gunboats. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He touched his hat politely to the ladies, and remarked that he supposed they had never seen so many live Yankees before in their lives. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000_l. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- What odd people these Yankees are. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- As had been the case on the Rio Grande, the people who remained at their homes fraternized with the Yankees in the pleasantest manner. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Yankees are a deal the most tricky, everybody knows. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Things went confoundedly with me in New York; those Yankees are cool hands, and a man of gentlemanly feelings has no chance with them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The Parliament, too, believed the stories of another foolish general, I forget his name, that the Yankees never _felt bold_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
整理:默娜