英语词汇win one-s spurs的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

win one’s spurs. The allusion here is not to cowboys of the American West but to those days four centuries before when knighthood was in flower and young men dubbed knights by their lords were presented with a gilded pair of spurs. Since then the expression to win one’s spurs has been extended from the idea of a knight performing a valorous act and winning honor to anyone performing any deed and gaining honor among his peers—from a doctor delivering his first baby to an author publishing his first book.

词汇	win one-s spurs
词源	win one’s spurs. The allusion here is not to cowboys of the American West but to those days four centuries before when knighthood was in flower and young men dubbed knights by their lords were presented with a gilded pair of spurs. Since then the expression to win one’s spurs has been extended from the idea of a knight performing a valorous act and winning honor to anyone performing any deed and gaining honor among his peers—from a doctor delivering his first baby to an author publishing his first book.
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