英语词汇welfare的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	welfare
词源	welfare. Welfare, in the sense of financial assistance for the poor and needy, goes back only about 90 years. It seems to have first been used in this sense in Dayton, Ohio, in 1904, accord- ing to the Westminster Gazette (January 28, 1905) and Ernest Weekley’s Something About Words (1935).
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