英语词汇wide-awakes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wide-awakes
词源	wide-awakes. Wide-awakes were young Republicans, some 400,000 in number throughout the country, who avidly sup- ported Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. The group orig- inated in Hartford, Connecticut, and was named for the hat members wore. The hat was made of a fabric that contained no “nap”—hence the pun wide-awake.
随便看	one picture is worth a thousand words one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind one-s name is mud one-s own man one swallow does not a summer make one thing on their minds one hand on their things one to show one to blow one touch of nature one-trick pony one year-s seeding seven years weeding onion onion-fish only at peace when at war only good indian is a dead indian onomastician onomatopoeia on one-s high horse on one-s uppers on the back burner on the ball on the beam on the boards on the bum on the carpet on the cuff

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