英语词汇lightweight的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lightweight
词源	lightweight. British boxers who weighed under 154 pounds were called lightweights as early as 1850, although the Ameri- can lightweight division today is 127–135 pounds. Before that, in the 1730s, lightweight had been used in English horse racing to refer to lightweight gentleman riders. Both of these terms were the inspiration for the general expression lightweight meaning an unimportant or inconsequential person, which is first recorded in 1882. See heavyweight.
随便看	whiskey courage whistle for it whistler-s mother whistling in the dark whistling up the wind white bread white christmas white cliffs of dover white-collar worker whited painted sepulchre white elephant white fleet white-glove inspection white goods white graveyard of the atlantic white hats and black hats white horses white house white knuckle driving white lie white list white-livered white man-s burden white meat white mountains

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。