“George Washington? Wasn't he the president who cut down the cherry tree and invented electricity?” said a taxi driver in Washington D. C. , the capital of the United States. No, he wasn't.The cherry tree story is a myth(神话) and it was another Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin,...
“George Washington? Wasn't he the president who cut down the cherry tree and invented electricity?” said a taxi driver in Washington D. C. the capital of the United States. No he wasn't.The cherry tree story is a myth(神话) and it was another Founding Father Benjamin Franklin who is...
A battle over whether young George Washington hacked at a cherrytree with an ax has broken out...Bedard, Paul
And he did not chop down a cherry tree as a child and then admit it by saying, “I cannot tell a lie.” In fact, historian Joseph Ellis says George Washington “lied many times.” 他少年时砍掉一颗樱桃树并承认自己的过犯,他说:“我不能撒谎。” 事实上,历史学家约瑟夫·埃利斯认为华盛顿 ...
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英语 语言 高级 外语分类 能力等级 外语教材 切换-音频 00:00:00/ 00:00:00 高清 声音简介 George Washington and the Cherry Tree 乔治华盛顿和樱桃树 George Washington (1732–1799) was the first President of the USA from 1789 until 1797. George Washington and the Cherry Tree was originally publishe...
And he did not chop down a cherry tree as a child and then admit it by saying, “I cannot tell a lie.” In fact, historian Joseph Ellis says George Washington “lied many times.” But it is true that as Washington became more famous, his reputation grew. People thought of him as ...
In doing so, they reworked aspects of the Washington myth that are suppressed or taken for granted in the patriotic contexts where the myth functions as a cliche. Russian Jewish Mary Antin and Texas Mexican Americo Paredes shift the focus of Mason Locke Weems' cherry tree away from young ...