英语词汇hell on wheels的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hell on wheels
词源	hell on wheels. Union Pacific Railroad construction gangs in the 1860s lived in boxcars that were pulled along as the line progressed. Traveling and living with these hard-drinking, of- ten violent men were gamblers, prostitutes, and other unsavory characters. The wild congregation assembled in the boxcars suggested the population of hell to settlers, and the transient town was called hell-on-wheels, a colorful term soon applied to any violent, vicious person or lawless place.
随便看	it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle it might have been it must have been one of the nuts it rains on the just and unjust alike i trust it-s nothing trivial its it-s a great life if you don’t weaken it-s all in a day-s work it-s all over but the shouting it-s all worth it including the final crash it-s always the best swimmers that drown it-s a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but i think you’ll be amused by its presumptions it-s a new ball game it-s chess not checkers it-s greek to me it-s how you played the game it smells of the lamp it-s naughty but it-s nice it-s not brain surgery it-s not cricket it-s not funny it-s not over till the fat lady sings it-s not the size of the dog in the fight it-s the size of the fight in the dog it-s not what it-s cracked up to be it-s the berries

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