英语词汇mount rushmore的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Mount Rushmore. The colossal busts of Presidents Wash- ington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are carved on the face of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, but the mountain itself is named for an ob- scure New York lawyer who was sent to the area by business- men eager to know if mineral rights would be a good invest- ment there. Young Charles Rushmore, traveling all over the Black Hills, was well liked by miners thereabouts, and one story has it that when a stranger inquired about the name of a local hill, a worker jokingly replied, “Why that’s Mount Rush- more.” The name stuck. The story, which may be apocryphal, is from a letter to the New York Times Book Review (12/22/02).

词汇	mount rushmore
词源	Mount Rushmore. The colossal busts of Presidents Wash- ington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are carved on the face of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, but the mountain itself is named for an ob- scure New York lawyer who was sent to the area by business- men eager to know if mineral rights would be a good invest- ment there. Young Charles Rushmore, traveling all over the Black Hills, was well liked by miners thereabouts, and one story has it that when a stranger inquired about the name of a local hill, a worker jokingly replied, “Why that’s Mount Rush- more.” The name stuck. The story, which may be apocryphal, is from a letter to the New York Times Book Review (12/22/02).
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