Uncle Tom汤姆叔叔

【使用地区】：美国

【释义】：

A derogatory term for a black person who holds himself or herself subservient to whites．Although the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1852)could be easygoing to the point of servility，he was a noble man who was flogged to death at the end of the book for refusing to reveal the hiding place of two female slaves．

贬义词，指对白人卑躬屈膝的黑人。尽管斯托夫人的作品《汤姆叔叔的小屋》(1852)中的同名主人公脾气随和，不善抗争，却品德高尚。在书的结尾，即使被鞭打致死也不愿说出两个女奴藏身的地方。