英语词汇know-how的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	know-how
词源	know-how. An Americanism coined about 1830 that means “knowledge of how to do something, expertise.” It was first re- corded in an 1859 issue of Spirit of the Times featuring a story in which one character tells another to charge “fifty cents for the killing” (of livestock) “and fifty cents for the know-how.”
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