He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.
他陷入了对美国式独创性的狂热爱好，务必要使朋友们的家恰当地装备起来。
美国历史
With Yankee ingenuity they turned to trading on the river, building before 1836 three prosperous centers of traffic: Dubuque, Davenport, and Burlington.
Yankee ingenuity is a stereotype of inventiveness, technical solutions to practical problems, "know-how," self-reliance and individual enterprise associated with the Yankees who originated in New England and developed much of the industrial revolution in the United States after 1800. The stereotype first appeared in the 19th century. As Mitchell Wilson notes, "Yankee ingenuity and Yankee git-up-and-go did not exist in colonial days."