英语词汇derby的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

derby. Derby is the American name for a version of the dome- shaped felt hat that the English call a bowler. The man it honors also has the English Derby at Epsom Downs and the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs named for him. The 12th earl of Der- by, Edward Stanley (d. 1834), came from a family that traced its origins to William the Conqueror. He had a great interest in horse racing but little in his wife—a mutual feeling—and so de- voted most of his time to the improvement of the breed. Races had long been held at Epsom Downs, but in 1780 the earl started a series of annual contests for three-year-olds, the races named in his honor because he both suggested them and was such a convivial host each season at The Oaks, a house near the course that had belonged to his uncle General “Johnny” Burgoyne. The Derby became so popular that almost a century later, in 1875, the Kentucky Derby adopted part of its name. After the Civil War, American spectators at the “Blue Ribbon of the Turf ” no- ticed that English sportsmen often wore odd-shaped bowler hats. A few were brought back home, where it is said that a Con- necticut manufacturer made a stiff felt, narrow-brimmed ver- sion that an unknown New York store clerk sold as “hats like the English wear at the Derby.” In any event, derby became the American term for bowler, the most popular headwear for men up until the 1920s. See churchill downs.

词汇	derby
词源	derby. Derby is the American name for a version of the dome- shaped felt hat that the English call a bowler. The man it honors also has the English Derby at Epsom Downs and the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs named for him. The 12th earl of Der- by, Edward Stanley (d. 1834), came from a family that traced its origins to William the Conqueror. He had a great interest in horse racing but little in his wife—a mutual feeling—and so de- voted most of his time to the improvement of the breed. Races had long been held at Epsom Downs, but in 1780 the earl started a series of annual contests for three-year-olds, the races named in his honor because he both suggested them and was such a convivial host each season at The Oaks, a house near the course that had belonged to his uncle General “Johnny” Burgoyne. The Derby became so popular that almost a century later, in 1875, the Kentucky Derby adopted part of its name. After the Civil War, American spectators at the “Blue Ribbon of the Turf ” no- ticed that English sportsmen often wore odd-shaped bowler hats. A few were brought back home, where it is said that a Con- necticut manufacturer made a stiff felt, narrow-brimmed ver- sion that an unknown New York store clerk sold as “hats like the English wear at the Derby.” In any event, derby became the American term for bowler, the most popular headwear for men up until the 1920s. See churchill downs.
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