英语词汇lift yourself up by the bootstraps的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lift yourself up by the bootstraps. Riding boots and many other long boots have inside, near the top, loops or straps that make it easier to pull on a tight-fitting boot. When yanking on these straps it feels as if you are laboriously lifting yourself up- ward instead of putting on a boot, and no doubt such struggles inspired the saying to lift yourself up by the bootstraps, to raise yourself in the world exclusively through your own efforts. Such bootstraps, and even specialized boot hooks to pull them with, date back to Cromwellian times, but when the expression was invented is a mystery. It hasn’t been traced back before 1944, although it is almost certainly much older. In 1941 Rob- ert A. Heinlein published a story in Astounding Science Fiction called “By His Bootstraps.”

词汇	lift yourself up by the bootstraps
词源	lift yourself up by the bootstraps. Riding boots and many other long boots have inside, near the top, loops or straps that make it easier to pull on a tight-fitting boot. When yanking on these straps it feels as if you are laboriously lifting yourself up- ward instead of putting on a boot, and no doubt such struggles inspired the saying to lift yourself up by the bootstraps, to raise yourself in the world exclusively through your own efforts. Such bootstraps, and even specialized boot hooks to pull them with, date back to Cromwellian times, but when the expression was invented is a mystery. It hasn’t been traced back before 1944, although it is almost certainly much older. In 1941 Rob- ert A. Heinlein published a story in Astounding Science Fiction called “By His Bootstraps.”
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