Turnerian
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to J. M. W. Turner (circa 1775 – 1851), British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker.
— Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.
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Of or relating to Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), American historian, known primarily for his frontier thesis.
— Turnerian echoes of resilient pioneers pressing into a wilderness and transforming hard-scrabble frontier into a bastion of liberty remain in contemporary scholarship even if those frontiersmen are viewed with a more critical eye for the violence they perpetrated.
词源
From Turner + -ian.
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