词汇 | the great white way |
词源 | The Great White Way. This nickname for the Manhattan theatrical or entertainment district, a reference to all the lights there, was coined by Albert Bigelow Paine, best known today as Mark Twain’s first biographer, and used as the title of his novel The Great White Way (1901), which is about the Antarctic, not Broadway. |
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