英语词汇ask not what your country can do for you的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. The precise wording of this famous phrase, especially the catchy inversion “ask not” can be credit- ed to John F. Kennedy, as it usually is, but the sentiment was hardly original with J.F.K. Wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., for just one example: “It is now the moment . . . to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.” After this, in a 1916 speech, future president Warren G. Harding said: “We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”

词汇	ask not what your country can do for you
词源	ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. The precise wording of this famous phrase, especially the catchy inversion “ask not” can be credit- ed to John F. Kennedy, as it usually is, but the sentiment was hardly original with J.F.K. Wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., for just one example: “It is now the moment . . . to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.” After this, in a 1916 speech, future president Warren G. Harding said: “We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”
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