英语词汇sagebrush的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sagebrush
词源	sagebrush. Artemisia tridentata and several similar Artemi- sia species that grow wild on the plains and deserts and are a symbol of the American West. In Roughing It (1872), Mark Twain wrote, “. . . if the reader can imagine a gnarled and ven- erable live oak tree reduced to a little scrub two feet high, with its rough bark, its foliage, its twisted boughs, all complete, he can picture the ‘sage-brush’ exactly.”
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