英语词汇dixie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Dixie; Dixieland. It sounds incredible, but the first Dixie- land or Dixie may have been in New York City. Some etymologists lean to the following derivation of the word giv- en by the Charlestown Courier of June 11, 1885: “When slav- ery existed in New York, one Dixie owned a large tract of land on Manhattan Island, and a large number of slaves. The in- crease of the slaves and of the abolition sentiment caused an emigration of the slaves to more thorough and secure slave sections, and the Negroes who were thus sent off (many being born there) naturally looked back to their old houses, where they had lived in clover, with feelings of regret, as they could not imagine any place like Dixie’s. Hence it became synony- mous with an ideal location combining ease, comfort, and material happiness of every description.” Although no slave “lived in clover,” the explanation seems somewhat less doubt- ful than other theories about Dixie—that it derives from the 18th-century Mason Dixon line, or that the word comes from the French-Creole word dix, meaning “10,” which was promi- nently printed on the back of 10-dollar notes issued by a New Orleans bank before the Civil War. See away down south in dixie.

词汇	dixie
词源	Dixie; Dixieland. It sounds incredible, but the first Dixie- land or Dixie may have been in New York City. Some etymologists lean to the following derivation of the word giv- en by the Charlestown Courier of June 11, 1885: “When slav- ery existed in New York, one Dixie owned a large tract of land on Manhattan Island, and a large number of slaves. The in- crease of the slaves and of the abolition sentiment caused an emigration of the slaves to more thorough and secure slave sections, and the Negroes who were thus sent off (many being born there) naturally looked back to their old houses, where they had lived in clover, with feelings of regret, as they could not imagine any place like Dixie’s. Hence it became synony- mous with an ideal location combining ease, comfort, and material happiness of every description.” Although no slave “lived in clover,” the explanation seems somewhat less doubt- ful than other theories about Dixie—that it derives from the 18th-century Mason Dixon line, or that the word comes from the French-Creole word dix, meaning “10,” which was promi- nently printed on the back of 10-dollar notes issued by a New Orleans bank before the Civil War. See away down south in dixie.
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