英语词汇rustler的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rustler. A cattle thief. This usage is first recorded in the American West in 1882. At first rustler meant an energetic per- son, one who rustled up stray cattle for his boss. The word appears to have evolved from “hustler,” as this quote from Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902) indicates: “It [rustler] was not in any dictionary, and current translations of it were incon- sistent. A man at Hossie Falls said that he had passed through Cheyenne, and heard the term applied in a complimentary way to people who were alive and pushing. Another man had al- ways supposed it meant some kind of horse. But the most alarming version of all was that a rustler was a cattle thief. Now the truth is that all these meanings were right. The word ran a sort of progress in the cattle country, gathering many meanings as it went.” Of course, the common meaning of the word came to be “a cattle or horse thief.” As a matter of fact, a Texas state legislator was convicted of cattle rustling as recently as 1983.

词汇	rustler
词源	rustler. A cattle thief. This usage is first recorded in the American West in 1882. At first rustler meant an energetic per- son, one who rustled up stray cattle for his boss. The word appears to have evolved from “hustler,” as this quote from Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902) indicates: “It [rustler] was not in any dictionary, and current translations of it were incon- sistent. A man at Hossie Falls said that he had passed through Cheyenne, and heard the term applied in a complimentary way to people who were alive and pushing. Another man had al- ways supposed it meant some kind of horse. But the most alarming version of all was that a rustler was a cattle thief. Now the truth is that all these meanings were right. The word ran a sort of progress in the cattle country, gathering many meanings as it went.” Of course, the common meaning of the word came to be “a cattle or horse thief.” As a matter of fact, a Texas state legislator was convicted of cattle rustling as recently as 1983.
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