| 释义 |
‖ samogon, n.|səmaˈgon, anglicized ˈsæməgɒn|
[Russ., f. samo- self + gon- stem of gnat′ to distill.]
In Russia, illegally distilled spirit, similar to vodka.
1928Observer in Lit. Digest (N. Y.) 22 Dec. 14/2 After the adoption of the New Economic Policy..a flourishing trade in samogon, an illegal substitute for vodka distilled from grain, grew up. 1932Ann. Amer. Acad. Pol. & Social Sci. CLXIII. 227/2 The peasants turned to samogon, vodka distilled at home. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipel. I. i. ii. 87 One could easily recognize that neither burglary, nor murder, nor samogon distilling, nor rape ever seemed to occur at random intervals or in random places throughout the country. 1987Times 21 Mar. 5/3 Sovietskaya Rossiya disclosed that the anti-alcohol campaign was being ‘seriously undermined’ by an upsurge in the brewing of samogon, a home-made spirit with a fiery taste and potentially lethal after-effects. |