rookie 的詞源
rookie(n.)
"新兵",1868年,這個詞是由吉卜林的《營房歌謠》(1892)推廣的,但其起源不確定,可能來自 recruit,並受到 rook(n.1)在其次要意義上的影響,暗示“容易被欺騙”。Barrère(《俚語,行話和黑話詞典》,1890)有“Rookey(軍隊),新兵; 來自他們中的一些人穿的黑色外套”,這表明它來自 rook(n.1)。這個詞在美國英語中普遍使用是在西班牙美國戰爭期間。
The rapid growth of a word from a single seed transplanted in a congenial soil is one of the curiosities of literature. Take a single instance. A few weeks ago there was not one American soldier in a thousand who knew there was such a word as "rookey." To-day there are few soldiers and ex-soldiers who have not substituted it for "raw recruit." [The Midland Monthly, December 1898]
從一個在適宜的土壤中移植的單個種子快速生長成一個詞是文學的奇觀之一。舉個例子。幾周前,沒有一個美國士兵知道有“rookey”這樣的詞。今天,很少有士兵和退伍軍人沒有用它來代替“新兵”。[《中部月刊》,1898年12月]
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