英语词汇long row to hoe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

long row to hoe. Rows in American home gardens today, usually a dozen feet or so in length, can’t compare to the long rows of corn, beans, and other crops on early American farms. These rows, which often stretched out of sight, had to be weed- ed by hand at the time and approaching one with hoe in hand was dispiriting, to say the least. The expression a long row to hoe was probably well established for any time-consuming, te- dious task many years before Davy Crockett first recorded it in 1835. It is still heard in a day when mechanized equipment has replaced hoes on farms, perhaps because, according to a recent poll, some 100 million Americans consider themselves vegeta- ble gardeners.

词汇	long row to hoe
词源	long row to hoe. Rows in American home gardens today, usually a dozen feet or so in length, can’t compare to the long rows of corn, beans, and other crops on early American farms. These rows, which often stretched out of sight, had to be weed- ed by hand at the time and approaching one with hoe in hand was dispiriting, to say the least. The expression a long row to hoe was probably well established for any time-consuming, te- dious task many years before Davy Crockett first recorded it in 1835. It is still heard in a day when mechanized equipment has replaced hoes on farms, perhaps because, according to a recent poll, some 100 million Americans consider themselves vegeta- ble gardeners.
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