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Meanings

  1. 1 Pinkerton (English surname)
  2. 2 the Pinkerton Detective Agency
  3. 3 B. F. Pinkerton, the American naval officer in Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Examples

Píngkèdùn zhēntànshè chénglì yú yī bā wǔ líng nián.
The Pinkerton Detective Agency was founded in 1850.
Píngkèdùn shì 《Húdié Fūrén》 de nán zhǔjué.
Pinkerton is the male lead in Madama Butterfly.

Tips

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Two famous Pinkertons: (1) Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish-American detective who founded the agency that foiled an 1861 plot against Lincoln and later busted strikes for the Gilded-Age railroads; (2) Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton, the callous American officer who abandons Cio-Cio-san in Puccini's opera 《蝴蝶夫人》 (Madama Butterfly). Subtitle-corpus hits usually point to one of those two.

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