英语词汇jesse james的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Jesse James. Jesse Woodson James became a kind of Ameri- can Robin Hood in his own brief lifetime. A member of the Confederate Quantrill gang in his youth, he and his brother Frank later led the most notorious band of robbers in the coun- try’s history. The gang’s daring bank and train robberies caused many deaths, but James was regarded as a hero by a public that hated foreclosing banks and greedy railroads. In 1882, chang- ing his name to Thomas Howard, Jesse went into hiding at St. Joseph, Missouri. There, six months later, Robert Ford, “the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard,” killed him for a re- ward. Jesse James was only 35 when he died. He is still a folk hero, commemorated in a popular ballad, folktales, movies, novels, and at least one play. Besides being slang for a criminal, a Jesse James is a truckman’s name for a police magistrate and has been applied by baseball players to umpires.

词汇	jesse james
词源	Jesse James. Jesse Woodson James became a kind of Ameri- can Robin Hood in his own brief lifetime. A member of the Confederate Quantrill gang in his youth, he and his brother Frank later led the most notorious band of robbers in the coun- try’s history. The gang’s daring bank and train robberies caused many deaths, but James was regarded as a hero by a public that hated foreclosing banks and greedy railroads. In 1882, chang- ing his name to Thomas Howard, Jesse went into hiding at St. Joseph, Missouri. There, six months later, Robert Ford, “the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard,” killed him for a re- ward. Jesse James was only 35 when he died. He is still a folk hero, commemorated in a popular ballad, folktales, movies, novels, and at least one play. Besides being slang for a criminal, a Jesse James is a truckman’s name for a police magistrate and has been applied by baseball players to umpires.
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