| 单词 |
cholo |
| 释义 |
Cholo, cholo|ˈtʃəʊləʊ|
[Amer. Sp., f. Cholollán, now Cholula, a district of Mexico.]
a. An Indian of Latin America.
b. U.S. A lower-class Mexican (often derog.).
c. = mestizo. The feminine is ˈChola.
1851H. Melville Whale II. i. 1 Archy..whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo. 1860Star (Los Angeles) 3 Mar. 2/2 The lower class of Sonoranians, called cholos. 1862C. R. Markham Trav. Peru & India 80 The Cholos or Indians of Arequipa have long been notorious for their turbulence. 1877E. G. Squier Peru 115 One of them [sc. Chinese] had married a native Chola. 1908C. R. Enock Andes & Amazon (ed. 2) 19 A Chola girl had entered my room to sell me a cui, or guinea-pig. Ibid. 138 The Cholos..are the original Quechua Indians of the uplands..and sometimes they have an admixture of Spanish blood. 1909N.Y. Even. Post 19 Jan. 6/3 The Westerner must then equally persecute the ‘cholos’ who have been pouring into his State from below the Rio Grande. 1925Contemp. Rev. Jan. 799 A few cows and llamas tended by a bright-petticoated, ever-spinning chola. 1959New Statesman 23 May 728/1 A whole area of petty bureaucracy belongs to the lower middle class mestizo or cholo. |
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