| 单词 | bloody chasm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbloody chasm bloody chasm n. U.S. (now historical) the estrangement between northern and southern states caused by the American Civil War; cf. chasm n. 5.In quot. 1863 applied to the American Civil War itself. ΚΠ 1863 Standard 28 May 4/5 Why was the gallant brigade of Sedgwick hurled into the bloody chasm which is swallowing up, by thousands of victims at a time, the manhood of the North? 1876 Congress. Rec. June 3791/1 This measure is one of reconciliation. It reunites; it fills up the ‘bloody chasm’. 1950 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 36 735 He was..one of the most successful among the former Confederates in bridging the ‘bloody chasm’ on terms both honest and honorable. 2001 F. Hilfrich in J. Heideking et al. Celebrating Ethnicity & Nation xii. 234 The graves that had served as reminders of the bloody chasm and sectional separation were thus finally subsumed in a common American culture of remembrance. < as lemmas |
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