n. 1.楊基佬〔尤指老式作風的新英格蘭人〕。 2.〔美南部〕(南北戰(zhàn)爭時的)北軍;北部人,北方佬。 3.〔英口〕美國佬;〔pl.〕【商業(yè)】美國鐵路股份。adj. 1.美國北方人的。 2.美國佬式的。短語和例子
-ism 美國佬脾氣;美國式;美國語風,美國腔。
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His brisk manner branded him a yankee . 他舉止麻利,一看就是個北方佬。 We sang these lines to the tune of yankee doodle . 我們用揚基歌的曲調(diào)唱這幾句歌詞。 A connecticut yankee is similarly uneven . 《在亞瑟王朝廷里的康涅狄格州美國人》也同樣瑕瑜互見。 Well the yankees ate babies and the rebs starved prisoners . 是啊,北方佬吃孩子,南方佬虐待俘虜。 The old yankees stopped at nothing to subjugate the irish immigrants . 老美國佬不顧一切地要制服愛爾蘭移民。 There was a shrewd yankee in emerson, a blunt fellow who could strip an occasion to its essence . 愛默生有美國佬的那種精明,那份單刀直入的耿直。 One yankee business-man had been overheard asking the police why they didn't use tear-gas . 有人聽見一個做生意的美國佬在問警察為什么不用催淚彈。 There was a shrewd yankee in emerson, a blunt fellow who could strip an occasion to its essence . 愛默生有揚基人的那份精明,那份單刀直入的耿直。 Mark twain poked fun at it in a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court . 馬克吐溫在《在亞瑟王朝廷里的一個康涅狄格州揚荃》一本書中對它取笑。 In his "history of new york", irving pictured it as a region of unscrupulous yankee traders . 歐文在《紐約外史》里把它描寫成利欲熏心的楊基商人群集之地。
The term Yankee (sometimes shortened to Yank) has several interrelated meanings, referring to people from the United States. Within the US it refers to people originating in the northeastern US, or still more narrowly New England, where application of the term is largely restricted to the descendants of colonial English settlers in the region.
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