时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


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 Hackney:“马车”变“平庸”


翻查字典,您会发现hackney有多种含义:“出租马车”;“作苦工的人”;“陈腐的”。相不相信?从辞源上来讲,它们之间确实存有联系。 最早,hackney指的是位于泰晤士河支流流域River Lea(利河)河畔的一个小村庄,由于Hackney Village(“哈克尼”村)水草丰沃,所以村子以盛产膘肥力壮的马而闻名远近。“哈尼克”村的马最大的特点就是善于奔跑,因此常被雇到村外供人骑玩,久而久之,这些马就被取名为“哈克尼”马。到了14世纪,hackney的词义进一步扩大,用来指代所有的“出租马车”。 既然马车是租来的,使用者一定会充分利用租来“伙计”,让其干各种各样的活儿,慢慢的,hackney(马车)词义延伸,开始用来比喻“卑贱的苦工”。在此基础之上,16世纪,人们用hack writer来指代“替人写杂文的落魄文人”。 另外,在蒸汽机出现以前,街头的“出租马车”可以说是泛滥成灾,于是,hackney也用来指那些“平庸无奇、毫无出众之处”的事物。到了18世纪,“hackneyed”被用做形容词,指“陈词滥调的,老生常谈的”。

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acoustic nerve (or auditory nerve)
Agua Dulce
Antiparastics
atmospheric sulfur dioxide detector
binder machine
blogshop model
burger bun
burn notice
butt plate splice
cadwalader
cedis
centaureidin
centroid of the rudder area
corner fitting
crush load
dilated
diseased animal slaughter house
Dubki
Dummy text
edmar
eloize
emotivists
entailments
flowing area of mud flow
garnet red
Gauzān
gravimetric baseline
grely
hashing algorithm
heads-ups
hil
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hot critical reactor
hydroclone separator
kiss good - bye
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land use system
lf communication
Lodrāni
Lyell
magnetothermoelectrical
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mechanical spring
megacalycosis
metasphaeria theaevora hara
Mitchell River
MNP5
multireflector
negative sequence reactance
nervi spermaticus externus
nomen rectum
nonoverlaid
passive offside
periplaneta sp.
pestoid
phoned up
piquant sauce
pivot leaf gate
planterra
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polystyrene ceiling board
premastering software
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private station
production drawing for forging
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pure O
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V. R. L.
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wayland
william styrons
wind-borne sediments
wound type induction motor
wyngaarden
You rang, sir.
yttria