fever swamp

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An area of stagnant water and hot temperatures that acts as a breeding ground for disease vectors such as mosquitos.
    — Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun.
  2. A group of political extremists or an area that is dominated by them. derogatory
    — Only a few years earlier, the neocons had been denouncing them as coming from "the fever swamps", in the words of Decter.
  3. A set of extreme and crazy political positions. derogatory
    — The Right's ever-vigilant Slogan Division focus-grouped a winner on immigration: "No amnesty for lawbreakers." No "shamnesty." And that is where the Right made its stand, right in the middle of the Minutemen fever swamps.

词形变化

fever swamps plural fever-swamp alternative

词源

The original term sprang from the belief that the swamp itself caused illnesses such as malaria and cholera, before the role of disease vectors was understood. The political use of the term is generally attributed to the neoconservative journalist Midge Decter, as a metaphor for right-wing political extremists as breeding ground for crazy ideas.
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