Main Street 的意思
主要街道;小镇的象征;平凡与物质主义的代名词
Main Street 的词源
Main Street(n.)
“(美国)城镇的主要街道”,这个词在1810年出现,来源于 main(形容词)+ street。从19世纪后期起,它开始被用来隐喻“平庸、小镇物质主义”,这一意义在辛克莱·刘易斯的小说《大街》(1920年)出版后得到了进一步强化。
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"]
但在一个努力实现完全标准化和纯粹化的国家里,一个村庄不再仅仅是地方性的,不再是那种在树影下安逸无知的乡村。它正在成为一种力量,试图主宰世界,抽干山丘和海洋的色彩,让但丁为戈弗普雷里代言,把高高在上的神灵打扮成“克拉西大学服装”。它自信满满,像一个戴着棕色礼帽的推销员,征服了中国的智慧,把香烟广告钉在那些原本只为孔子名言而建的拱门上,持续了几个世纪。《大街》
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