| 单词 | black country |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBlack Country Black Country n. an area of the West Midlands of England which, esp. in the 19th cent., was blackened by the smoke and dust of the coal and iron trades there.The area includes southern Staffordshire and the country to the west of Birmingham. ΚΠ 1846 W. Gresley (title) Colton Green: a tale of the Black Country. 1851 S. Sydney Rides on Railways 126 In this Black Country, including West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Dudley and Darlaston, Bilston, Wolverhampton and several minor villages, a perpetual twilight reigns during the day. 1871 J. C. Young Mem. C. M. Young I. 325 In the densely-populated black country, with its smoke and blasts and furnaces. 1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 248/2 Some of the finest structural engineering in the world was done in the Black Country. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Oct. 25/2 ‘So I got a ticket and I went’, Iqbal says flatly in his adenoidal Black Country accent. < as lemmas |
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