词汇 | manager |
词源 | manager. Managers were originally horse trainers, the word manage deriving from the Italian maneggiare, meaning “to train horses.” But not long after manage was introduced in En- gland the word came to be applied to the military, meaning to handle weapons as well as horses and then to conduct a war. By the late 16th century it had assumed its current meaning. |
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