英语词汇tobacco road的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tobacco road. Erskine Caldwell explained the term in his fa- mous novel Tobacco Road (1932): “The road on which Jeeter lived was the original tobacco road his grandfather had made. . . . The road had been used for the rolling of tobacco casks, large hogsheads in which the leaf had been packed after being cured and seasoned in the clay-chinked barns; thousands of hogsheads had been rolled along the crest of the ridge which connected the chain of sand hills, and they had made a smooth firm road the entire distance of fifteen miles. . . . There were scores of tobacco roads on the western side of the Savannah Valley, some only a mile or so long, others extending as far back as twenty-five or thirty miles into the foothills of the Pied- mont. Anyone walking cross-country would more than likely find as many as six or eight in a day’s hike. The region, topo- graphically, was like a palm leaf; the Savannah was the stem, large at the bottom and gradually spreading out into the veins at the top. On the side of the valley the creeks ran down like the depressions in the palm leaf, while between them lay the ridges of sand hills, like seams, and on the crests of the ridges were the tobacco roads.”

词汇	tobacco road
词源	tobacco road. Erskine Caldwell explained the term in his fa- mous novel Tobacco Road (1932): “The road on which Jeeter lived was the original tobacco road his grandfather had made. . . . The road had been used for the rolling of tobacco casks, large hogsheads in which the leaf had been packed after being cured and seasoned in the clay-chinked barns; thousands of hogsheads had been rolled along the crest of the ridge which connected the chain of sand hills, and they had made a smooth firm road the entire distance of fifteen miles. . . . There were scores of tobacco roads on the western side of the Savannah Valley, some only a mile or so long, others extending as far back as twenty-five or thirty miles into the foothills of the Pied- mont. Anyone walking cross-country would more than likely find as many as six or eight in a day’s hike. The region, topo- graphically, was like a palm leaf; the Savannah was the stem, large at the bottom and gradually spreading out into the veins at the top. On the side of the valley the creeks ran down like the depressions in the palm leaf, while between them lay the ridges of sand hills, like seams, and on the crests of the ridges were the tobacco roads.”
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