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单词 prairie fever
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prairie fever
prairie fever n. enthusiasm or liking for the prairies of North America.
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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.
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