英语词汇hart island的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Hart Island. Named for Peter Hart, a New York City police- man and hero of the Civil War, this East River island, off City Island in the Bronx, has been the home since 1869 of New York City’s Potter’s Field, or city cemetery, where the city’s unknown and unwanted poor are buried. The dead are taken to the pot- ter’s field from City Island by the “Last Ferry” and buried in mass graves containing hundreds of cheap pine coffins. Few New Yorkers have been to Hart Island, and few would want to go there, before or after death. It is a dreary, barren place where little respect is shown for the dead, and where their bones, called leather by the Riker’s Island prisoners who do the bury- ing, are frequently washed to the surface of the graves after heavy rains.

词汇	hart island
词源	Hart Island. Named for Peter Hart, a New York City police- man and hero of the Civil War, this East River island, off City Island in the Bronx, has been the home since 1869 of New York City’s Potter’s Field, or city cemetery, where the city’s unknown and unwanted poor are buried. The dead are taken to the pot- ter’s field from City Island by the “Last Ferry” and buried in mass graves containing hundreds of cheap pine coffins. Few New Yorkers have been to Hart Island, and few would want to go there, before or after death. It is a dreary, barren place where little respect is shown for the dead, and where their bones, called leather by the Riker’s Island prisoners who do the bury- ing, are frequently washed to the surface of the graves after heavy rains.
随便看	quince quincunx quinine quinsy quintessence quinzhee quip quiring quirk of fate quirly quisle quisling quisqualis quixotic quiz quoddy boat quonset hut quotation quotation mark quote quotes quotidian r ra rabage