Peoria
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How to pronounce Peoria in British English:
英 [piˈɔːriə]
How to pronounce Peoria in American English:
美 [ piˈɔːriə]
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- Noun:
- a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River
单词词源
- Peoria
- small city in Illinois, U.S., originally the name of a subdivision of the Miami/Illinois people (1673), from native /peewaareewa/. Their own name is said to mean "carriers." The place name also is found in Oklahoma and Iowa, but it is the Illinois city that has been proverbially regarded as the typical measure of U.S. cultural and intellectual standards at least since Ambrose Bierce (c. 1890). Also the butt of baseball player jokes (c. 1920-40, when it was part of the St. Louis Cardinals farm system) and popularized in the catchphrase "It'll play in Peoria" (often negative), meaning "the average American will approve," which was popular in the Nixon White House (1969-74) but seems to have had a vaudeville origin. Personification in "little old lady in Peoria" is said to be from Harold Ross of the "New Yorker." Peoria's rivals as embodiment of U.S. small city values and standards include Dubuque, Iowa; Hoboken and Hackensack, N.J.; Oakland (Gertrude Stein: "When you get there, there isn't any there there") and Burbank, Calif., and the entire state of North Dakota.
双语例句
- 1. Reel china : will it play in peoria and shanghai ?
- 2. In contrast , the operations of global financial markets today , for instance , affect people from peoria to penang .
- 3. When shali was sixteen , his family moved to peoria , illinois , where he taught himself english by watching john wayne movies .
- 4. She drives him to appointments at the veterans affairs clinic in nearby peoria and the va hospital more than two hours away in danville .
- 5. Thirty-five years after my father left ethiopia he died in a room in a boarding house in peoria illinois that came with a partial view of the river .