| 单词 | yellow peril |
| 释义 | yellow perilnoun Disparaging and Offensive.(in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples. the Asian peoples regarded as presenting such a danger. Also called yellow terror . Origin of yellow perilFirst recorded in 1895–1900 usage note for yellow perilSee yellow. Words nearby yellow perilYellow Newtown, Yellow No. 5, yellow pad, yellow pages, yellow perch, yellow peril, yellow pikeperch, yellow pine, yellow poplar, yellow puccoon, yellow rain Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for yellow peril
British Dictionary definitions for yellow perilyellow peril nounthe power or alleged power of Asiatic peoples, esp the Chinese, to threaten or destroy the supremacy of White or Western civilization Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for yellow perilYellow Peril A supposed threat to the United States posed by Japan and China. The phrase arose in the late nineteenth century, at a time when Japanese and Chinese immigration to America was meeting resistance and when Japan was growing as a military power. (See internment of Japanese Americans.) The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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