英语词汇cracker-barrel philosopher的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cracker-barrel philosopher. One small-town Missouri store- keeper in 1829 sold a line of books that included Homer, Hero- dotus, Josephus, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Defoe, Bunyan, Smollett, Hume, Fielding, and Scott. A town’s most educated man aside from the schoolteacher and the preacher, the coun- try storekeeper was usually the local crackerbox philosopher, and he and others of his breed often sat around on the large cracker barrels in general stores philosophizing on all the is- sues of the day. Such wise rustics were probably called cracker- barrel philosophers at the time, though the term isn’t recorded until 1938 in a Time magazine piece.

词汇	cracker-barrel philosopher
词源	cracker-barrel philosopher. One small-town Missouri store- keeper in 1829 sold a line of books that included Homer, Hero- dotus, Josephus, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Defoe, Bunyan, Smollett, Hume, Fielding, and Scott. A town’s most educated man aside from the schoolteacher and the preacher, the coun- try storekeeper was usually the local crackerbox philosopher, and he and others of his breed often sat around on the large cracker barrels in general stores philosophizing on all the is- sues of the day. Such wise rustics were probably called cracker- barrel philosophers at the time, though the term isn’t recorded until 1938 in a Time magazine piece.
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