banana republic

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government. derogatory,idiomatic
    — At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.

词形变化

banana republics plural

词源

Coined by American author O. Henry in 1901 in his short story Money Maze, set in the fictional "Anchuria", which was based on his 1896–97 stay in Honduras.
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