Mother Russia

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A national personification of Russia as a woman, appearing in patriotic posters, statues, etc.
  2. Russia. metonymically
    — We did not understand what it was all about; but we were defending Mother Russia.

词源

Calque of Russian Ма́тушка Росси́я (Mátuška Rossíja) or Росси́я-Ма́тушка (Rossíja-Mátuška).
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