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单词 prairie madness
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prairie madness
prairie madness n. now historical depression or other mental illness found among early settlers on the prairies, attributed to the isolation and harshness of their mode of life.
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1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. 35 Prairie madness, the melancholia which attacks the lonely homesteader.
1973 H. Robertson Grass Roots iii. 53 The loneliness and isolation which contributed to emotional breakdowns known in the West as ‘prairie madness’.
2003 Newsday (Nexis) 15 June d29 She began researching ‘prairie madness’, a scientifically documented syndrome that afflicted 19th century homesteaders in the Dakotas.
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