Main Street（n.）
"主要街道"，1810年，来自 main（形容词）+ street。后来引申为“平庸、小镇物质主义”的意思，这种意义在辛克莱·刘易斯的小说《大街》（1920年）出版后得到了加强。
But a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to dominate the earth, to drain the hills and sea of color, to set Dante at boosting Gopher Prairie, and to dress the high gods in Klassy Kollege Klothes. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicate to the sayings of Confucius. ["Main Street"]
但是，在一个国家里，这个村庄正在努力成为完全标准化和纯粹化的，它渴望成为继维多利亚时代英格兰之后世界上最主要的平庸之地，它不再仅仅是一个省级城市，不再是一个毛茸茸的、在树叶阴影下安逸的无知之地。它是一个力量，试图支配地球，排干山丘和海洋的色彩，让但丁为高佛普雷（Gopher Prairie）站台，并让高贵的神穿上 Klassy Kollege Klothes。它自信满满，欺负其他文明，就像一个戴着棕色礼帽的旅行推销员征服了中国的智慧，并在几个世纪以来致力于孔夫子的拱门上贴上香烟广告一样。["大街"]