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CHAPTER 1—“Uncle Sam”
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The gentleman who graced the gubernatorial armchair of our state when this century was born happened to be an admirer of classic lore1 and the sonorous2 names of antiquity3.
It is owing to his weakness in bestowing4 pompous5 cognomens on our embryo6 towns and villages that to-day names like Utica, Syracuse, and Ithaca, instead of evoking7 visions of historic pomp and circumstance, raise in the minds of most Americans the picture of cocky little cities, rich only in trolley-cars and Methodist meeting-houses.
When, however, this cultured governor, in his ardor8, christened one of the cities Troy, and the hill in its vicinity Mount Ida, he little dreamed that a youth was living on its slopes whose name was destined9 to become a household word the world over, as the synonym10 for the proudest and wealthiest republic yet known to history, a sobriquet11 that would be familiar in the mouths of races to whose continents even the titles of Jupiter or Mars had never penetrated12.
A little before this century began, two boys with packs bound on their stalwart shoulders walked from New York and established a brickyard in the neighborhood of what is now Perry Street, Troy. Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson soon became
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lore
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n.古老;高龄;古物,古迹 | |
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产生,引起,唤起( evoke的现在分词 ) | |
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synonym
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patriot
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