单词 | prairie fever |
释义 | > as lemmasprairie fever prairie fever n. enthusiasm or liking for the prairies of North America. ΚΠ 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. iii. 33 I became intoxicated with the romance of my new life. I had caught the ‘prairie-fever’! 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. May 323/1 He ain't to know no different but what Jack's got prairie fever. Mind you plum him up stiff. 1959 Geogr. Jrnl. 125 151 At the age of thirty ‘prairie fever’, then a common malady among well-to-do young British sportsmen..took him to the unsettled American prairies and mountains of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone. 2000 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 19 Nov. 5 t James Michener caught prairie fever and the inspiration for his novel Centennial from these wide-open spaces. < as lemmas |
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