| 词汇 | the settlement of the west |
| 词源 | the settlement of the West. As Edna Ferber put it in Cimarron (1930), “The back and side doors of the dwelling [were] littered with the empty tin cans that mark any new American settlement, and especially one whose drought is relieved by the thirst- quenching coolness of tinned tomatoes. . . . Perhaps the canned tomato as much as anything else, made possible . . . the settling of the vast West. . . .” |
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