英语词汇“sundown town”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sundown town n. U.S. (in the period of racial segregation, in certain parts of the United States) a town in which black people face intimidation, harassment, attack, or forcible expulsion if they remain overnight or go outside after sunset; cf. don't let the sun go down (also set) on you at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(a)(iii).Quot. 1907 shows isolated earlier use in sense ‘a town in which all businesses or other establishments are closed by sunset’, with reference to the town's new-found respectability after outlawing gambling.

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1907 Salt Lake Tribune 9 July 13/4 In less than a week after the new fellows took hold Pueblo was a sun-down town. Not a gambling house was left open.]

1936 J. E. Seville Like Spreading Tree i. 11 The ‘sundown’ towns of white faces where a Negro may not be found after dark with safety.

1995 J. M. Loewen Lies my Teacher told Me (1996) v. 165 Some small communities in the Midwest and West became ‘sundown’ towns, informally threatening African Americans with death if they remained overnight.

2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 79/6 Almost no other novel treats the creation of sundown towns. Gone by Sundown thus amounts to a one-volume antidote to American amnesia.

单词	sundown town
释义	> as lemmas sundown town sundown town n. U.S. (in the period of racial segregation, in certain parts of the United States) a town in which black people face intimidation, harassment, attack, or forcible expulsion if they remain overnight or go outside after sunset; cf. don't let the sun go down (also set) on you at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(a)(iii).Quot. 1907 shows isolated earlier use in sense ‘a town in which all businesses or other establishments are closed by sunset’, with reference to the town's new-found respectability after outlawing gambling. ΚΠ 1907 Salt Lake Tribune 9 July 13/4 In less than a week after the new fellows took hold Pueblo was a sun-down town. Not a gambling house was left open.] 1936 J. E. Seville Like Spreading Tree i. 11 The ‘sundown’ towns of white faces where a Negro may not be found after dark with safety. 1995 J. M. Loewen Lies my Teacher told Me (1996) v. 165 Some small communities in the Midwest and West became ‘sundown’ towns, informally threatening African Americans with death if they remained overnight. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 79/6 Almost no other novel treats the creation of sundown towns. Gone by Sundown thus amounts to a one-volume antidote to American amnesia. extracted from sundownn. < as lemmas
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