英语词汇almanac的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. The above is just one sample of the shrewd maxims and prov- erbs, almost all of which became part of America’s business ethic, that Benjamin Franklin wrote or collected in his Poor Richard’s Almanac. This was by no means the first almanac is- sued in America, that distinction belonging to An Almanack for New England for the Year 1639, issued by William Pierce, a shipowner who hoped to attract more paying English passen- gers to the colonies and whose almanac was (except for a broadside) the first work printed in America. Poor Richard’s was written and published by Franklin at Philadelphia from 1733 to 1758 and no doubt takes its name from the earlier En- glish Poor Robin’s Almanac, first published in 1663 by Robert (“Robin”) and William Winstanley. Almanacs, which take their name from a medieval Latin word for a calendar with as- tronomical data, were issued as early as 1150, before the in- vention of printing, and were compendiums of information, jokes, and proverbs.

词汇	almanac
词源	almanac. Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. The above is just one sample of the shrewd maxims and prov- erbs, almost all of which became part of America’s business ethic, that Benjamin Franklin wrote or collected in his Poor Richard’s Almanac. This was by no means the first almanac is- sued in America, that distinction belonging to An Almanack for New England for the Year 1639, issued by William Pierce, a shipowner who hoped to attract more paying English passen- gers to the colonies and whose almanac was (except for a broadside) the first work printed in America. Poor Richard’s was written and published by Franklin at Philadelphia from 1733 to 1758 and no doubt takes its name from the earlier En- glish Poor Robin’s Almanac, first published in 1663 by Robert (“Robin”) and William Winstanley. Almanacs, which take their name from a medieval Latin word for a calendar with as- tronomical data, were issued as early as 1150, before the in- vention of printing, and were compendiums of information, jokes, and proverbs.
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