英语词汇correspondence的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

correspondence. Correspondence, from the Latin correspon- denta, can be an exchange of letters and, in our time, e-mail. It can also mean similarity or analogy, and agreement or con- formity. English clergyman and wit Sydney Smith (1771–1845) once wrote to a correspondent: “Correspondences are like small-clothes [knee britches] before the invention of suspend- ers: It is impossible to keep them up.” But consider that from 1961 until his bedridden wife died in 1985 Uichi Noda wrote her 1,307 long letters during his travels. This world record for correspondence was published in 25 books totaling 12,404 pages.

词汇	correspondence
词源	correspondence. Correspondence, from the Latin correspon- denta, can be an exchange of letters and, in our time, e-mail. It can also mean similarity or analogy, and agreement or con- formity. English clergyman and wit Sydney Smith (1771–1845) once wrote to a correspondent: “Correspondences are like small-clothes [knee britches] before the invention of suspend- ers: It is impossible to keep them up.” But consider that from 1961 until his bedridden wife died in 1985 Uichi Noda wrote her 1,307 long letters during his travels. This world record for correspondence was published in 25 books totaling 12,404 pages.
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