main line 的意思
主要线路; 富裕住宅区
main line 的词源
main line(n.)
“铁路的主要线路”,1841年,源自main(形容词)+ line(名词)。“富裕居住区”的含义始于1917年,最初(大写)指费城以西的地区,来自宾夕法尼亚铁路的“主线”,该铁路在19世纪末增加了本地停靠站,将费城以西的一串偏远小镇变成了时尚的郊区。
The Main Line, Philadelphia's most famous suburban district, was deliberately conceived in the 1870's and 1880's by the [Pennsylvania] Railroad, which built high-toned housing developments, ran hotels, more or less forced its executives to plunk their estates out there, and created a whole series of somewhat spurious Welsh towns along the railroad tracks. ... Now everybody assumes these all date from 1682, like the Robertses; but as Chestnut Hill people like to say, "nobody but Welsh peasants lived on the Main Line till the Railroad built it up." [Nathaniel Burt, "The Perennial Philadelphians," 1963]
费城最著名的郊区——主线,是由[宾夕法尼亚]铁路在1870年代和1880年代刻意构想的,他们建立了高档住宅区,经营酒店,或多或少地迫使其高管在那里安置他们的庄园,并沿铁路轨道创建了一系列有些虚假的威尔士小镇。……现在每个人都认为这些地方都可以追溯到1682年,就像罗伯茨家族一样;但正如栗树山的人们喜欢说的那样,“在铁路建立起来之前,主线上只有威尔士农民居住。” [纳撒尼尔·伯特,《永恒的费城人》,1963年]
最初的站点,按出城顺序排列,分别是:Overbrook、Merion、Narberth、Wynnewood、Ardmore、Haverford、Bryn Mawr、Paoli。沿线的通勤火车被俗称为“Paoli本地”。
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