| 单词 | god's country |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGod's country God's country n. a country regarded as especially favoured by God; spec. the United States, or some particular part of the United States; cf. God's own country n. ΚΠ 1709 tr. C. J. Poncet Voy. Æthiopia 16 This is a Plentiful Country, and..the Inhabitants have given it the Name of Beladalla, that is to say God's Country [Fr. païs de dieu]. 1722 I. Kimber et al. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 155 Pope Urban..by a zealous Harangue, animated the Prelates..to excite the Faithful to take up Arms for the Recovery of God's Country. 1865 R. H. Kellogg Life & Death in Rebel Prisons 118 I was willing to work hard, if I could only get out of that horrible den, into God's country once more. 1890 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose (new ed.) xv. 218 The memory of the little woman I had left behind me in the East, or ‘God's country’. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings xvii. 298 A man had better be in God's country living on free lunch than there. 1906 H. D. Pittman Belle of Bluegrass Country i. 1 I entered ‘God's Country’, as the natives call that portion of Kentucky which lies within a radius of thirty miles of Lexington. 1946 E. B. Thompson Amer. Daughter 10 We can work for..a real home.., out in God's country! 1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick iv. 65 (heading) Back home again in God's Country. 1995 Denver Post 2 July b1/1 A passenger on the leg from Atlanta to Jackson informs everyone, ‘You're headed into God's country now.’ < as lemmas |
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