| 单词 | sunbelt |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunbelt sunbelt n. originally and chiefly U.S. an area or belt of land that receives a lot of sunshine; esp. (with the and usually with capital initial) a zone approximately consisting of the southern third of the United States, from California in the west to Florida and the Carolinas in the east, whose favourable climate has brought about an influx of population from the north since the 1970s. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > southern states south1779 Sunny South1833 Negroland1836 Old South1847 Dixie1859 Cousin Sally1861 sunbelt1918 down home1920 Deep South1936 1918 Gas Industry Nov. 339/2 This is the case in San Francisco, where gas is made in the sun belt of the Potrero to be sold in the fog of the western part of the city. 1947 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. xx3 (headline) A Calendar of Fiestas, Fairs and Mardi Gras in the Sunbelt. 1969 K. P. Phillips Emerging Republican Majority v. 438 Chart 134 illustrates how the electoral votes of the Sun Belt will have almost tripled in the half-century between 1920 and 1970. 1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 4 Dec. (Midwestern ed.) 2/2 In some of the wooded parts of this bustling Sun-belt city, white-tailed deer have been spotted. 1997 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 16 Aug. l2 Australian Bureau of Statistics crime figures for 1996 also show not everything is rosy in the sunbelt. 2015 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 4 June (Metro section) 13 As more people move to the Sunbelt, fans of the sport [sc. ice hockey] have brought their passion and extensive knowledge..with them. < as lemmas |
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