| 单词 | young america |
| 释义 | > as lemmasYoung America Young America n. (also with lower-case initial in the first element) (a) American youth collectively; (b) (the slogan of) an expansionist movement within the Democratic Party in the 1840s and 1850s; cf. manifest destiny n. at manifest adj. and adv. Compounds (now historical).In sense (b) after the names of various nationalist reform movements in Europe (compare Compounds 5a and also young England n.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [phrase] > specific slogans Young America1838 O.K.1840 America First1915 1838 J. F. Cooper Home as Found II. xi. 173 I think we have now had pretty fair specimens of old and young America; the first distrusting every thing native, even to a potatoe [sic]; and the second distrusting nothing, and least of all, itself. 1844 St. Louis Reveille 30 Nov. 2/2 No mammoth bank..can form any part of the creed of the Young America! 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxxviii. 444 He and the innocent chatterbox whom I met on the Swiss lake are the most unique and interesting specimens of Young America I came across during my foreign tramping. 1924 Outlook 10 Sept. 45/1 Young America could with profit leave such affairs alone. 1962 E. Wilson Patriotic Gore p. xxii Douglas..had been the leader of the ‘Young America’ movement in the Democratic Party, which had favored..the annexation of Mexico, Cuba and..Central America. 2000 Holiday & Leisure Spring 130/3 One of the most trendy and lively hang-outs for young America. 2007 J. Eyal Young Amer. Movement & Transformation Democratic Party 135 Young America had moved from a rhetorical affirmation of the Monroe Doctrine to a symbolic showdown through the Oregon crisis, and then to a full-blown war in defence of their new hemispheric prerogatives. < as lemmas |
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