英语词汇uncle sam的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Uncle Sam. The original Uncle Sam was Samuel Wilson, the nephew of army contractor Elbert Anderson, who owned a store or slaughterhouse in Troy, New York and had a contract to supply the army with salt pork and beef during the War of 1812. Wilson and his uncle Ebenezer, Elbert’s brother, worked as army inspectors and frequently inspected the meat Elbert Anderson packed in barrels with the initials “E.A.—U.S.” stamped on them. According to a popular version of the story, one soldier asked another what the initials E.A.—U.S. (Elbert Anderson United States) meant and his companion quipped that they stood for “Elbert Anderson’s Uncle Sam.” Some schol- ars dispute this story, which was widely accepted during Wil- son’s lifetime, but no better explanation has been given. The term’s first recorded use was in the Troy Post of September 7, 1813, which speaks well for the Samuel Wilson theory except that the article only says the words derive from the initials on government wagons. The name Uncle Sam caught on quickly as a symbol of the army and then as a national nickname to coun- teract that of England’s John Bull.

词汇	uncle sam
词源	Uncle Sam. The original Uncle Sam was Samuel Wilson, the nephew of army contractor Elbert Anderson, who owned a store or slaughterhouse in Troy, New York and had a contract to supply the army with salt pork and beef during the War of 1812. Wilson and his uncle Ebenezer, Elbert’s brother, worked as army inspectors and frequently inspected the meat Elbert Anderson packed in barrels with the initials “E.A.—U.S.” stamped on them. According to a popular version of the story, one soldier asked another what the initials E.A.—U.S. (Elbert Anderson United States) meant and his companion quipped that they stood for “Elbert Anderson’s Uncle Sam.” Some schol- ars dispute this story, which was widely accepted during Wil- son’s lifetime, but no better explanation has been given. The term’s first recorded use was in the Troy Post of September 7, 1813, which speaks well for the Samuel Wilson theory except that the article only says the words derive from the initials on government wagons. The name Uncle Sam caught on quickly as a symbol of the army and then as a national nickname to coun- teract that of England’s John Bull.
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