| 释义 |
middle town
1. The centre of a town.
1855S. Rodman Diary (1927) 324/1, I went to the middle town [of Shirley Village, Massachusetts] on two first days and heard good sermons.
2. Usu. Middletown. A typical middle-class community. orig. U.S. Hence Middletowner, the average middle-class person.
1929R. S. & H. M. Lynd (title) Middletown: a study in contemporary American culture. 1954Koestler Invis. Writing v. 65 Another factor..is the uniform dreariness of the average Russian town and its lack of architectural character... This uniformity reminds one of the middle⁓towns of America. 1974Times 21 Feb. 4/7 ‘Middletown’ is bored nearly to tears by the television coverage of the [election] campaign. Ibid., I have watched the coverage after pounding the streets of ‘Middletown’, and what I have heard from political leaders has had little to do with what is bothering the many ‘Middletowners’ I have met. Ibid. 28 Feb. 18/7 Middletowners..are not political animals... Three weeks in Middletown suggests to me that no party leader has tried to find out what bothers its people. |