英语词汇vaseline的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Vaseline. Among those flocking to America’s first oil strike near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1858, was Robert A. Chese- brough, a Brooklyn chemist, who noticed that workmen with cuts, bruises, and burns used as a soothing ointment a waxy substance from the pump rods bringing up the oil. Gathering some of the oily residue, Chesebrough took it back to Brooklyn and made a jelly-like product from it. This he patented at once, giving it the trademark Vaseline, a word he formed from the German Wasser (pronounced “vasser”) “water” and the Greek elaion, “olive oil.”

词汇	vaseline
词源	Vaseline. Among those flocking to America’s first oil strike near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1858, was Robert A. Chese- brough, a Brooklyn chemist, who noticed that workmen with cuts, bruises, and burns used as a soothing ointment a waxy substance from the pump rods bringing up the oil. Gathering some of the oily residue, Chesebrough took it back to Brooklyn and made a jelly-like product from it. This he patented at once, giving it the trademark Vaseline, a word he formed from the German Wasser (pronounced “vasser”) “water” and the Greek elaion, “olive oil.”
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