English Dictionary

fever swamp

名詞

軽蔑的

An area of stagnant water and hot temperatures that acts as a breeding ground for disease vectors such as mosquitos. / (derogatory) A group of political extremists or an area that is dominated by them.

日本語の意味

高温で停滞した水域で、蚊などの病原媒介者が繁殖する環境。 / (蔑称) 政治的過激派の集団、あるいはその支配下にある地域。

The village avoided the fever swamp during the rainy season, knowing it bred mosquitoes and sickness.

村人たちは雨季に、蚊などの病原体媒介者が繁殖する熱くて淀んだ沼地を避けた。

意味（1）

An area of stagnant water and hot temperatures that acts as a breeding ground for disease vectors such as mosquitos.

Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun.

意味（2）

(derogatory) A group of political extremists or an area that is dominated by them.

Only a few years earlier, the neocons had been denouncing them as coming from the fever swamps, in the words of Decter.

意味（3）

(derogatory) A set of extreme and crazy political positions.

The Right's ever-vigilant Slogan Division focus-grouped a winner on immigration: No amnesty for lawbreakers. No shamnesty. And that is where the Right made its stand, right in the middle of the Minutemen fever swamps.

fever swamps （ plural ）