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Uncle Sam (pointing finger)
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"Saving Daylight^ "Set the clock ahead one hour and win the war" uncle sam, your enemies have been up and are at... - NARA - 512689
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山姆大叔

Shānmǔ Dàshū
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Uncle Sam (personification of the United States)

About Uncle Sam

文学人物 fictional character

The white-bearded man in a top hat and stars-and-stripes suit who stands for the United States government, as on the 1917 army poster "I Want YOU". Chinese media also use the name for the United States itself.

Examples

HSK 5
媒体常把美国政府称为山姆大叔。
Méitǐ cháng bǎ Měiguó zhèngfǔ chēngwéi Shānmǔ Dàshū.
The media often refers to the US government as Uncle Sam.
HSK 7-9
海报上画着山姆大叔指着观众。
Hǎibào shàng huà zhe Shānmǔ Dàshū zhǐzhe guānzhòng.
The poster shows Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer.

Tips

history
The usual story credits Samuel Wilson, a meatpacker in Troy, New York, whose army rations in the War of 1812 were stamped 'U.S.', read as 'Uncle Sam'. But the nickname is already found in 1810, and the Wilson story first appeared in print in 1842.
memory
山姆 (Shānmǔ) is the standard transliteration of "Sam"; 大叔 ("uncle") translates the kinship part. The same 山姆 appears in 山姆会员店 - Sam's Club, Walmart's membership chain.

Stroke Order

山 shān
姆 mǔ
大 dà
叔 shū