英语词汇fink的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fink. The original fink may have been either a Pinkerton man or a cop named Albert Fink, who worked for railroads in the American South. Mencken prefers the former explanation, tracing the term to the 1892 Homestead steel strike when Pink- erton men were hired as strikebreakers, these brutal “Pinks” becoming finks in time, the word synonymous with the earlier “scab” or the British “blackleg.” Finks were anathema to the early labor movement, but the word is now used to describe not only “a strikebreaker but any treacherous, contemptible person or a police informer.” Mr. Albert Fink could just as well have inspired the term in similar fashion. The German-born Fink, according to a reliable source, long headed a staff of de- tectives with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and then switched to the New York Trunk Line Association in about 1875. He was not involved in railroad labor disputes, but his operatives probably policed rates charged on the lines and some of them were likely planted spies who came to be known as finks. This gives the word more a management than a labor flavor, but it is possible that fink gained currency in this way before being adopted by union men. It is at least as plausible as the transformation of “Pinks” to finks. Ratfink is a stronger variant of fink that originated in the U.S. within the last 30 years or so. See pinkerton.

词汇	fink
词源	fink. The original fink may have been either a Pinkerton man or a cop named Albert Fink, who worked for railroads in the American South. Mencken prefers the former explanation, tracing the term to the 1892 Homestead steel strike when Pink- erton men were hired as strikebreakers, these brutal “Pinks” becoming finks in time, the word synonymous with the earlier “scab” or the British “blackleg.” Finks were anathema to the early labor movement, but the word is now used to describe not only “a strikebreaker but any treacherous, contemptible person or a police informer.” Mr. Albert Fink could just as well have inspired the term in similar fashion. The German-born Fink, according to a reliable source, long headed a staff of de- tectives with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and then switched to the New York Trunk Line Association in about 1875. He was not involved in railroad labor disputes, but his operatives probably policed rates charged on the lines and some of them were likely planted spies who came to be known as finks. This gives the word more a management than a labor flavor, but it is possible that fink gained currency in this way before being adopted by union men. It is at least as plausible as the transformation of “Pinks” to finks. Ratfink is a stronger variant of fink that originated in the U.S. within the last 30 years or so. See pinkerton.
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