handyman 的詞源
handyman(n.)
此外, handy-man,"僱傭做各種工作的人",自1843年起,源自 handy + man(名詞)。逐漸演變爲"能勝任各種工作的人"的意義。
A handy man is so practised in the regulation of the little utilities of the house he inhabits, that by a slight touch here and there—a screw turned here and a screw loosened there, and a nail driven in time—he keeps all working smoothly, and averts those domestic catastrophes and break-downs of which Punch makes so much capital in his pictures. [Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Arthur's Home Magazine, August 1869]
一個手巧的人在他居住的房子的小細節上非常熟練,通過輕輕一觸,這裏轉動一個螺絲,那裏鬆開一個螺絲,及時釘上一顆釘子,他保持一切運轉順暢,並避免了那些 Punch 在他的畫作中大肆渲染的家庭災難和故障。[哈里特·比徹·斯托夫(Harriet Beecher Stowe),《亞瑟的家庭雜誌》(Arthur's Home Magazine),1869年8月]
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