英语词汇firebug的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

firebug. Firebug derives from those bugs who have enthusi- asms often amounting to manias. That this is an old American expression is evidenced by the fact that Oliver Wendell Holmes used it figuratively, writing of “political firebugs” in his book The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872). That is the first recorded use of the term, which generally means “a pyromaniac, some- one mentally unbalanced who lights fires for his pleasure.” But people with a mania for anything have been called bugs in America since at least the early 19th century; we have had our slavery bugs, those who wished to see slavery extended into the West, and we still have our money bugs, whose sole interest is money.

词汇	firebug
词源	firebug. Firebug derives from those bugs who have enthusi- asms often amounting to manias. That this is an old American expression is evidenced by the fact that Oliver Wendell Holmes used it figuratively, writing of “political firebugs” in his book The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872). That is the first recorded use of the term, which generally means “a pyromaniac, some- one mentally unbalanced who lights fires for his pleasure.” But people with a mania for anything have been called bugs in America since at least the early 19th century; we have had our slavery bugs, those who wished to see slavery extended into the West, and we still have our money bugs, whose sole interest is money.
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