英语词汇agent的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	agent
词源	agent. The first professional author’s agent appears to have been Alexander Pollock Watt, an Englishman who had as his clients Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Bret Harte, among other great writers. Watt published a list of his clients, along with testimonials, in 1893. The firm he founded, A. P. Watt and Sons, is still in business. Agent for any person authorized to act on another’s behalf dates back to the 16th century and derives from Latin words meaning the same.
随便看	this great stage of fools this is a hell of a way to run a railway this isn’t our my first rodeo this is the sort of nonsense up with which i will not put thistle thomas jefferson still survives thomas’ muffin thomism thompson submachine gun thorn in one-s side thorn in the flesh thorn test thou thrasonical three-and-thirty wounds three blind mice three bricks shy of a load three cheers three-dog night three-fifths compromise three-martini lunch three-mile limit three on a match threepeat three-ring circus

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