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平克頓
Píngkèdùn
proper noun #33,975

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 zhēntàn shè chénglì yú yībāwǔlíng 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

culture
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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