Uncle Sam

短语

山姆大叔

发音

UK /ˌʌŋkl̩ ˈsæm/
US /ˌʌŋkəl ˈsæm/
US /ˌəŋ-/

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A personification of the United States federal government or (rare) citizens.

    山姆大叔

    非正式

    Uncle Sam needs brave men and women to enlist in the Army.

词源

From uncle + Sam (diminutive of the male name Samuel), probably based on the initialism U.S. of the United States. While folk etymology suggests that the term was named after Samuel Wilson (1766–1854), a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied the United States Army with canned meat during the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom, the Oxford English Dictionary notes there is no evidence that this is the case.

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