英语词汇brushfire的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

brushfire. Two uses of the word brush probably suggested this recent coinage for a relatively small, localized war, an ex- pression first recorded about 30 years ago. Brushfire, the term invented by early emigrants on the western frontier, was a fire in the brush, or scrubby areas where shrubs and small trees grew, a fire relatively easy to control compared with a forest fire. More than a century later the word brush became slang for uncivilized regions of any kind. Since they took place in what many considered “uncivilized” areas and were presumably easy to contain, local wars in far-off places became known as brush- fire wars in the mid-1950s. Brushfire has also been used as an adjective for other things limited in scope, area, or importance, as in a brushfire labor dispute.

词汇	brushfire
词源	brushfire. Two uses of the word brush probably suggested this recent coinage for a relatively small, localized war, an ex- pression first recorded about 30 years ago. Brushfire, the term invented by early emigrants on the western frontier, was a fire in the brush, or scrubby areas where shrubs and small trees grew, a fire relatively easy to control compared with a forest fire. More than a century later the word brush became slang for uncivilized regions of any kind. Since they took place in what many considered “uncivilized” areas and were presumably easy to contain, local wars in far-off places became known as brush- fire wars in the mid-1950s. Brushfire has also been used as an adjective for other things limited in scope, area, or importance, as in a brushfire labor dispute.
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