英语词汇shiprock的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Shiprock. An interesting New Mexico landmark described by Willa Cather in Death Comes to the Archbishop (1927): “And north of the canyon de Chelly was the Shiprock, a slender crag rising to a dizzy height, all alone out on a flat desert. Seen at a distance of fifty miles or so, that crag presents the figure of a one- masted fishing boat under full sail, and the white man named it accordingly. But the Indian has another name; he believes the rock was once a ship of the air. Ages ago . . . that crag had moved through the air, bearing upon its summit the parents of the Na- vaho race from the place in the far north where all peoples were made—and wherever it sank to earth was to be their land.”

词汇	shiprock
词源	Shiprock. An interesting New Mexico landmark described by Willa Cather in Death Comes to the Archbishop (1927): “And north of the canyon de Chelly was the Shiprock, a slender crag rising to a dizzy height, all alone out on a flat desert. Seen at a distance of fifty miles or so, that crag presents the figure of a one- masted fishing boat under full sail, and the white man named it accordingly. But the Indian has another name; he believes the rock was once a ship of the air. Ages ago . . . that crag had moved through the air, bearing upon its summit the parents of the Na- vaho race from the place in the far north where all peoples were made—and wherever it sank to earth was to be their land.”
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