英语词汇gansevoort street pier的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Gansevoort Street pier. The pier in New York City where Herman Melville spent the last 20 years of his life as a “most inglorious” inspector of customs, in complete obscurity. Ironi- cally, the name Gansevoort honored his affluent maternal an- cestors. A neglected Moby-Dick behind him, the writer lived for the evenings during which he could work on Billy Budd in his bleak Gramercy Park room. So little known was America’s great novelist at his death that the New York Times at first failed to print his obituary. Belatedly the Times printed a brief item reporting the death of “Hiram” Melville.

词汇	gansevoort street pier
词源	Gansevoort Street pier. The pier in New York City where Herman Melville spent the last 20 years of his life as a “most inglorious” inspector of customs, in complete obscurity. Ironi- cally, the name Gansevoort honored his affluent maternal an- cestors. A neglected Moby-Dick behind him, the writer lived for the evenings during which he could work on Billy Budd in his bleak Gramercy Park room. So little known was America’s great novelist at his death that the New York Times at first failed to print his obituary. Belatedly the Times printed a brief item reporting the death of “Hiram” Melville.
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