Bible Belt

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. An area where socially conservative Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:Bible Belt.
  2. An area in the southeastern United States where Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive and dominant part of the culture.

词形变化

the Bible Belt canonical Bible belt alternative

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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