| 释义 |
Hooverville U.S.|ˈhuːvəvɪl|
[f. the name of Herbert C. Hoover (see prec. word) + -ville terminal element in many place-names.]
A temporary shanty town.
The reference is to the temporary accommodation provided for unemployed workers in the economic depression of the early 1930s.
1933New Republic 24 May 40/1 Hoovervilles are in a separate nation, with separate codes. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xix. 319 There was a Hooverville on the edge of every town. 1946V. Lincoln in 55 Short Stories from New Yorker (1952) 36, I found White Creek Row. It was the town's Hooverville..a tragic, shocking, sordid shanty town. 1949Sat. Rev. 6 Aug. 116 They called them ‘Hoovervilles’. Evicted families lived in tin-and-cardboard shacks. 1952Economist 6 Sept. 554/2 A tragic island of unemployment, a new, 1952 Hooverville. 1973J. Jones Touch of Danger xviii. 108 It was all like some weird..Hooverville. They were cooking their suppers over the open fires. |