单词 | sierra club |
释义 | > as lemmasSierra Club Sierra Club n. originally and chiefly U.S. a non-profit-making environmentalist organization, formed in the U.S. in the early 1890s (originally to promote the exploration of the mountainous regions of the Pacific coast); (also, occasionally) an organization modelled on this; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations Tityre-tu1623 Peep o' Day Boys1780 law society1821 kongsi1839 B'nai B'rith1862 Molly Maguire1867 Kennel Club1874 Ethical Society1877 Kyrle Society1877 Molly1877 Sierra Club1891 subak1897 Workers' Educational Association1905 senior1906 W.E.A.1910 Lions Club1922 godless1927 F.P.A.a1940 Diners' Club1950 amnesty1961 Sealed Knot1971 Greenpeace1972 lions1972 Gaysoc1976 Group of Eight1977 Group of Seven1977 meeja1983 G71986 G81988 1891 Overland Monthly July 19/1 Why not have a Sierra Club, to spend vacations in the mountains, and study them? 1926 World's Work Sept. In the summer of 1902..he went with the Sierra Club far up in King's River Cañon. 1959 Ski Mar. 47/1 The word ‘mogul’..it might be worthwhile to investigate it... The Sierra Club Ski Mountaineers have been using the word for the past twenty-five years or so as ‘mugel’. 1991 Newsweek 18 Feb. 63/3 That leaves everything up to the iconography—a Freudian version of ‘Total Recall’ in Dali's case, and a kind of Sierra Club Valhalla in Friedrich's. 2000 D. D'Souza Virtue of Prosperity ii. 47 Right-wingers are moving toward a proenvironmental stance. This does not mean that conservatives are signing up in droves to go tree hugging with the Sierra Club. < as lemmas |
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