Yankee

(noun.) an American (especially to non-Americans).

(noun.) an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).

(adj.) used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier) .

手打:鲁迪

• They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Yankee privateer Molasses. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I've given 'em the latest Yankee shine. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Soon the Canuck boys attacked the Yankee boys, and we were all badly licked. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• All this becomes such an insulation against new ideas that when the Yankee goes abroad he takes his environment with him. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• How did the Term Yankee Originate? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Sherman and I went together into a manufactory which had not ceased work on account of the battle nor for the entrance of Yankee troops. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Decimus Forthridge, of the American brig Independence, showed his Yankee pluck and resource in defeating an attack of Malay pirates with no other armament than fancy fireworks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A few weeks afterward I received a letter from one of my London friends, who was a doubting Thomas, upbraiding me for coming so soon under the spell of the 'Yankee inventor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was so crestfallen that I believe if I had ordered him to leave the car he would have gone quietly out, saying to himself: More Yankee oppression. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Indeed when the troops in Fort Fisher heard the explosion they supposed it was the bursting of a boiler in one of the Yankee gunboats. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He touched his hat politely to the ladies, and remarked that he supposed they had never seen so many live Yankees before in their lives. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000_l. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• What odd people these Yankees are. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• As had been the case on the Rio Grande, the people who remained at their homes fraternized with the Yankees in the pleasantest manner. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Yankees are a deal the most tricky, everybody knows. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Things went confoundedly with me in New York; those Yankees are cool hands, and a man of gentlemanly feelings has no chance with them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The Parliament, too, believed the stories of another foolish general, I forget his name, that the Yankees never _felt bold_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

整理:默娜