英语词汇mason-dixon line的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Mason-Dixon line. Although Dixie wasn’t named for the Mason-Dixon line, the latter term has come to be used as a fig- ure of speech for an imaginary dividing line between North and South. The Mason-Dixon line has an interesting history. Originally the 244-mile boundary set between Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1763–67 by English surveyers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, it was extended six years later to include the southern boundary of Pennsylvania and Virginia. The line had been established by English courts to settle a territorial dis- pute between the Penns of Pennsylvania and the Calverts of Maryland, but the use of Mason-Dixon line in Congressional debates during the Missouri Compromise (1819–20) gave the expression wide currency as a dividing line between free and slave states. After the Civil War the term was retained as the boundary between North and South, especially as a demarca- tion line of customs and philosophy. Its existence probably did influence the popularity of the word dixie.

词汇	mason-dixon line
词源	Mason-Dixon line. Although Dixie wasn’t named for the Mason-Dixon line, the latter term has come to be used as a fig- ure of speech for an imaginary dividing line between North and South. The Mason-Dixon line has an interesting history. Originally the 244-mile boundary set between Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1763–67 by English surveyers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, it was extended six years later to include the southern boundary of Pennsylvania and Virginia. The line had been established by English courts to settle a territorial dis- pute between the Penns of Pennsylvania and the Calverts of Maryland, but the use of Mason-Dixon line in Congressional debates during the Missouri Compromise (1819–20) gave the expression wide currency as a dividing line between free and slave states. After the Civil War the term was retained as the boundary between North and South, especially as a demarca- tion line of customs and philosophy. Its existence probably did influence the popularity of the word dixie.
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