英语词汇fence-mending的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fence-mending. Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, lat- er to author the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, decided to run for the Senate in 1879, knowing that he would shortly lose his Cabinet post because President Rutherford B. Hayes wouldn’t be running for reelection. When he visited his Ohio farm, he told reporters “I have come back to mend my fences” and reporters assumed he meant political fences, not the ones around the farm. Soon after, fence-mending came to mean “trying to gather political support at home by making personal contacts,” and “patching up disa- greements,” the last its most common use today.

词汇	fence-mending
词源	fence-mending. Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, lat- er to author the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, decided to run for the Senate in 1879, knowing that he would shortly lose his Cabinet post because President Rutherford B. Hayes wouldn’t be running for reelection. When he visited his Ohio farm, he told reporters “I have come back to mend my fences” and reporters assumed he meant political fences, not the ones around the farm. Soon after, fence-mending came to mean “trying to gather political support at home by making personal contacts,” and “patching up disa- greements,” the last its most common use today.
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