英语词汇war correspondent的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	war correspondent
词源	war correspondent. “Since the first gun discharged at Fort Sumter awoke the American world to arms, War Correspond- ence on this side of the Atlantic has been as much an avocation as practicing law or selling dry goods . . . The War Correspond- ent is the outgrowth of a very modern civilization.” So wrote the first observer to record war correspondent, in 1861, when the term, if not the profession, came into being.
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