racy of the soil

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Deeply connected to a place, especially Ireland; indigenous. Ireland,dated,usually
    — We have got such foreign and fantastic field sports as lawn-tennis, polo, croquet, cricket, and the like—very excellent, I believe, and health-giving exercises in their way, still not racy of the soil, but rather alien, on the contrary, to it, as are, indeed, for the most part the men and women who first imported and still continue to patronise them.
  2. Deeply connected to the land; rural or rustic; earthy. dated
    — In the hedge: ... purple loose-strife. (That our young maid's long purples call and literal shepherds give a grosser name. So racy of the soil!)

词形变化

more racy of the soil comparative most racy of the soil superlative racy of one's soil alternative

词源

See racy senses 2 and 3. Popularised in Ireland in the slogan of The Nation (1842–1900) — "To create and foster public opinion in Ireland, and to make it racy of the soil" — adapted from a remark by Stephen Woulfe on the Irish Municipal Reform Bill. Similar earlier phrases were used by William Drennan in Letters of Orellana in 1785, and by Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1831.
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