词汇 | okies |
词源 | Okies. The migrant farm workers of the Great Depression called the Okies took their name from Oklahoma, where many of them originally lived before they left the Dust Bowl and be- gan their journey west searching in vain for a golden land. They were of course immortalized in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. |
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