sagebrush(n.)
“Sage-brush”是指一种干燥的灌木植物,生长在美国西部广阔的干旱平原上,该词于1846年出现,由 sage(n.1)和 brush(n.2)组成。据说它被这样称呼是因为它的外观或气味类似于鼠尾草。
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. ["Mark Twain," "Roughing It"]
“鼠尾草灌丛是很好的燃料,但作为蔬菜却是彻头彻尾的失败。除了驴和它的私生子骡子,没有什么能忍受它的味道。”——马克·吐温,《荒野漫游》