rayon 的詞源
rayon(n.)
一種人造纖維,1924年由美國國家零售乾貨協會選擇,可能源自法語 rayon “光束,射線”,來自 rai(參見 ray(n.1)),因爲它很有光澤。這是市場營銷人員對原有專利名稱 artificial silk(1884)和另一種市場營銷嘗試 Glos 的替代品,後者因“被嘲笑而失敗”[《Draper's Record》,1924年6月14日]。
[T]he production of rayon in American plants, which in 1920 had been only eight million pounds, had by 1925 reached fifty-three million pounds. The flesh-colored stocking became as standard as the short skirt. ... No longer were silk stockings the mark of the rich; as the wife of a workingman with a total family income of $1,638 a year told the authors of Middletown, "No girl can wear cotton stockings to high school. Even in winter my children wear silk stockings with lisle or imitations underneath." [Frederick Lewis Allen, "Only Yesterday," 1931]
“在1920年,美國工廠生產的人造絲綢僅有800萬磅,到1925年已經達到5300萬磅。肉色長筒襪變得和短裙一樣普遍。……絲襪不再是富人的標誌; 一個年收入僅爲1638美元的工人妻子告訴 Middletown 的作者:“沒有女孩能在高中穿棉襪。即使在冬天,我的孩子們也會穿着絲襪,裏面還穿着絲光或仿真絲襪。”[弗雷德裏克·劉易斯·艾倫,《昨日的唯一》,1931年]
巧合的是,古法語 rayon 幾個世紀前被借入中古英語,作爲一種布料的名稱。
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