Ten Pound Pom是什么意思？
Between the wars, Australia (suffering a low birth-rate) made a big push for immigrants。 The Empire Settlement Scheme, one of the largest planned migration schemes of the 20th century, saw Britain and its colonies agreeing to share the cost of settling migrants。 Thousands of working-class famili...全部
Between the wars, Australia (suffering a low birth-rate) made a big push for immigrants。 The Empire Settlement Scheme, one of the largest planned migration schemes of the 20th century, saw Britain and its colonies agreeing to share the cost of settling migrants。
Thousands of working-class families, many from Britain’s industrial belt, arrived in Sydney in the early 1920s, boosting the city's population to over 1m by the end of the decade。
Australians scathingly dubbed the newcomers "Ten Pound Poms"—"ten" referred to the price they paid for their ocean passage; the origin of "Pom", however, remains unclear。
It is commonly explained as an acronym of "Prisoner of Mother England" or "Prisoner of [His or Her] Majesty"。
(Australians still use "Pom" to describe anyone from England。
) 就是说从英格兰移民到澳大利亚的那一批人的统称,Ten Pound 是指他们到澳洲的船费是10磅,而POMS的意思已经无从考证了,推断可能是Prisoner of Mother England" or "Prisoner of [His or Her] Majesty的意思,也就是从英国来的人的意思。收起
