英语词汇lawnmower的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lawnmower. The word lawnmower isn’t recorded until 1875, while lawn sprinkler made its appearance 19 years later. How- ever, the lawn mower was invented in around 1830 by English textile plant foreman Edwin Budding, who patterned his in- vention on factory machinery used at the time to shear the nap of woven cloth to a uniform height. Close to a century passed before retired American Army colonel Edwin George in 1919 invented the first motorized lawnmower, using the gasoline en- gine from the family washing machine for his invention. Then came the riding or riden lawnmower upon which all adults look ridiculous, though some people take them seriously—es- pecially the 40 or so people who compete in the Twelve-Mile Riding Lawn Mower Race held in Twelve-Mile, Indiana, on July 4 of every year, the winner usually breaking 45 minutes. Such people might be called “mownomaniacs.” Mownomaniac is a new word for someone obsessed with caring for, and espe- cially mowing, his or her lawn. Mownomaniacs have been around for about a century and a half now (there were few lawns as we know them before 1850).

词汇	lawnmower
词源	lawnmower. The word lawnmower isn’t recorded until 1875, while lawn sprinkler made its appearance 19 years later. How- ever, the lawn mower was invented in around 1830 by English textile plant foreman Edwin Budding, who patterned his in- vention on factory machinery used at the time to shear the nap of woven cloth to a uniform height. Close to a century passed before retired American Army colonel Edwin George in 1919 invented the first motorized lawnmower, using the gasoline en- gine from the family washing machine for his invention. Then came the riding or riden lawnmower upon which all adults look ridiculous, though some people take them seriously—es- pecially the 40 or so people who compete in the Twelve-Mile Riding Lawn Mower Race held in Twelve-Mile, Indiana, on July 4 of every year, the winner usually breaking 45 minutes. Such people might be called “mownomaniacs.” Mownomaniac is a new word for someone obsessed with caring for, and espe- cially mowing, his or her lawn. Mownomaniacs have been around for about a century and a half now (there were few lawns as we know them before 1850).
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