Bible Belt

短语

美国中西部正统派教徒多的地带；圣经带

词形变化

the Bible Belt

别名

Bible belt

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    An area where socially conservative Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.

    圣经带

    宗教

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:Bible Belt.

  2. 2.

    An area in the southeastern United States where Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive and dominant part of the culture.

    圣经带

词源

First used by American journalist H. L. Mencken, who wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1924 that "the old game, I suspect, is beginning to play out in the Bible Belt."

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