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"Codfish aristocracy" nghĩa là gì?
11 Sep, 2022
"Codfish aristocracy" = quý tộc cá tuyết -> nghĩa là tầng lớp quý tộc các gia đình ở Massachusetts làm giàu từ ngành buôn cá tuyết; nghĩa khác là tầng lớp quý tộc mới phất nhờ thành công từ thương mại.
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The first wealthy merchants in New England were called the “codfish aristocracy", and the Sacred (thiêng liêng) Cod was first hung in the Massachusetts Legislature in the 1730s. The cod was the symbol on the state’s early money. Not God. Cod.
Cod (cá tuyết) was so important to England that it was referred to as “British Gold.” A “codfish aristocracy” developed in the Massachusetts colony, where rich cod dealers built large mansions (biệt thự) with their profits. As the years passed, fishermen started using nets and larger vessels, where the fish could be pre-salted before being brought to shore.
“The members of the ‘codfish aristocracy,’ those who traced their family fortunes (gia tài) to the 17th-century cod fisheries, had openly worshiped the fish as the symbol (biểu tượng) of their wealth,” Mark Kurlansky wrote in “Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.”
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