英语词汇appomattox的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Appomattox. The name for a Virginia river that in turn gave its name to a sleepy town it meandered through in south- central Virginia, a hamlet more properly called Appomattox Court House, where all Confederate dreams died at the end of the Civil War when General Lee surrendered there. Appomat- tox itself later became a synonym for surrender or for victory, or for reconciliation, depending on who pronounced it. But perhaps Carl Sandburg defined the word best in Abraham Lin- coln: The War Years: “For a vast living host the word Appomattox had magic and beauty. They sang the syllables ‘Ap-po-mattox’ as a happy little carol of harvest and fields of peace and the sun going down with no shots in the night to follow.”

词汇	appomattox
词源	Appomattox. The name for a Virginia river that in turn gave its name to a sleepy town it meandered through in south- central Virginia, a hamlet more properly called Appomattox Court House, where all Confederate dreams died at the end of the Civil War when General Lee surrendered there. Appomat- tox itself later became a synonym for surrender or for victory, or for reconciliation, depending on who pronounced it. But perhaps Carl Sandburg defined the word best in Abraham Lin- coln: The War Years: “For a vast living host the word Appomattox had magic and beauty. They sang the syllables ‘Ap-po-mattox’ as a happy little carol of harvest and fields of peace and the sun going down with no shots in the night to follow.”
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