英语词汇sabotage的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sabotage. The root of sabotage is the French sabot, “wooden shoe,” but that is as much as anybody really knows about the word, which came into English during World War II from the French saboter meaning “to do work badly” or “to destroy ma- chines or a plant in order to win a strike.” Why the French made the verb saboter out of sabot, “shoe,” isn’t really known, though one persistent old story claims that wooden-shoed peasants trampled down a landowner’s crops to win better wages and working conditions. Another story says the term was coined after the great French railway strike of 1912, when “strikers cut the shoes (sabots) holding the railway lines.” Or it could be that French factory workers threw their shoes into machinery to disable and disrupt a plant.

词汇	sabotage
词源	sabotage. The root of sabotage is the French sabot, “wooden shoe,” but that is as much as anybody really knows about the word, which came into English during World War II from the French saboter meaning “to do work badly” or “to destroy ma- chines or a plant in order to win a strike.” Why the French made the verb saboter out of sabot, “shoe,” isn’t really known, though one persistent old story claims that wooden-shoed peasants trampled down a landowner’s crops to win better wages and working conditions. Another story says the term was coined after the great French railway strike of 1912, when “strikers cut the shoes (sabots) holding the railway lines.” Or it could be that French factory workers threw their shoes into machinery to disable and disrupt a plant.
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