| 单词 | good fences make good neighbours |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood fences make good neighbours c. Originally and chiefly U.S. Proverb. good fences make good neighbours and variants: good fences and well-defined boundaries lead to peaceful coexistence between neighbours. Also figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ 1640 E. Rogers Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1865) 4th Ser. VII. 215 A good fence helpeth to keepe peace betweene neighbours.] 1815 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (rev. ed.) IV. ii. xiii. 171 Good fences..preserve good neighbourhoods. 1834 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer 24 May 165/2 Good fences make good neighbors. 1877 Congregational Q. Apr. 270 As in social life so in church life, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ 1914 R. Frost North of Boston 12 My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’ 1971 Alternative Oct. 7/2 Conservatism believes that a primary threat to the good life is the use of political power by some individuals to invade the private affairs of other individuals. Conservatives feel that good fences make good neighbors. 2004 N.Y. Times 4 July 3/2 (headline) India and Pakistan: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors... Up the hillside..is a fence, meant to keep at bay infiltrators from Pakistan..seeking to separate..Kashmir from India. < as lemmas |
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