| 词汇 | corral |
| 词源 | corral. Corral has for well over a century had many more meanings than simply an enclosure for animals. In a letter to the New York Tribune in 1867, a rancher in the Montana Terri- tory put it this way: “If a man is embarrassed in any way, he is ‘corraled.’ Indians ‘corral’ men on the plains; storms ‘corral’ tourists. The criminal is ‘corraled’ in prison, the gambler ‘cor- rals’ the [gold] dust of the miner.” |
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