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barnyard(n.)

“Barn-yard”(barn-yard)也于1510年代出现,由 barnyard(n.1)组成。1920年代开始用于比喻粗鲁或不文明的行为。

The very speeches in which Jefferson and Lincoln spoke of their hope for the future are incomprehensible to most of the voters of that future, since the vocabulary and syntax of the speeches are more difficult—more obscure—than anything the voters have read or heard. For when you defeat me in an election simply because you were, as I was not, born and bred in a log cabin, it is only a question of time until you are beaten by someone whom the pigs brought up out in the yard. The truth that all men are politically equal, the recognition of the injustice of fictitious differences, becomes a belief in the fictitiousness of differences, a conviction that it is reaction or snobbishness or Fascism to believe that any individual differences of real importance can exist. [Randall Jarrell, "The Obscurity of Poetry," 1953]
杰斐逊和林肯在讲话中表达对未来的希望,这些讲话的词汇和句法对大多数未来的选民来说是难以理解的,因为这些讲话的难度比选民们读过或听过的任何东西都要高。因为当你在选举中击败我,仅仅因为你是在小木屋里出生和成长的,而我不是,那么你被某只猪带到院子里长大的人最终会被某个人击败。所有人在政治上平等的真理,对虚假差异的认识,变成了对差异虚假性的信仰,成为了一种信念,即认为相对重要的任何个人差异都是反动的、势利的或法西斯主义的。[兰德尔·杰勒尔,《诗歌的晦涩》,1953年]

该词起源时间:1510年代