Sherman necktie
名词 n.
英 /ˈʃɜːmən ˈnɛktaɪ/
美 /ˈʃɝmən ˈnɛktaɪ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway.
— We were compelled to go by carriage, as the railroads had been destroyed, the fat-pine cross-ties burned to heat the rails and the red-hot rails wrapped around the trees growing near the track. We used to call these iron rails "Sherman's neckties," and the solemn-looking chimneys standing guard over the former sites of once happy homes were called by the natives "Sherman's monuments."
词源
From Sherman, the surname of Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891) + necktie. During the American Civil War, Sherman ordered the destruction of the rails of railways in order to obstruct the Confederate States Army.
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