| 单词 | big rock candy mountain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBig Rock Candy Mountain Big Rock Candy Mountain n. (also Big Rock Candy Mountains) U.S. (in allusive use, esp. among hobos) a place or situation regarded as the pinnacle of ease and luxurious comfort; a utopia, a Cockaigne.Occurring originally in versions of a song describing a hobo's utopia (cf. quot. 1906; popularized by Harry McClintock (1882–1957), but apparently traditional) and in allusions to it. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 1906 M. P. W. Locke Big Rock Candy Mountains (song) Come to the Big Rock Candy Mountains, And I'll show you the bees and the cigarette trees And the soda water fountains.] 1917 Machinists' Monthly Jrnl. Mar. 253 (caption) Engine No. 4000, built by the members of Rose City Lodge 325..at the foot of Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Lemonade Springs. 1961 Life Treas. Amer. Folklore 294 The Hobo Special climbs Big Rock Candy Mountain. 1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 Apr. 4/4 The goal is their 20th century version of the big rock candy mountain. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 55 He made that country sound like the Big Rock Candy Mountains. Said there was lakes and runnin water and grass to the stirrups. 2005 K. Russell Dead Game (2007) xxv. 175 We're going to make some money, bro. Life is a big rock candy mountain. < as lemmas |
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