barnraising

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The collective construction of a barn by members of a community, common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America, and present-day Mennonite and Amish communities.
    — It was founded on a deep knowledge of human nature; namely, upon the fact that people read most eagerly that which they already know, if it is about themselves or their neighbors, if it is a report of something they have been concerned in, a lecture they have heard, a fair, or festival, or wedding, or funeral, or barn-raising they have attended.

词形变化

barnraisings plural barn raising alternative barn-raising alternative

词源

From barn + raising.
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