英语词汇skyscraper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

skyscraper. The world’s first skyscraper office building was the 10-story Chicago office of the Home Insurance Company built in 1883 by architect William Le Baron Jenney. The fitting name skyscraper was given to this first building to employ steel skeleton construction, a building much higher than any other building of its time, but journalists had borrowed the word from the triangular sails that had long been used high on the masts of sailing vessels, scraping against the sky. Novelist Henry James wrote that Manhattan skyscrapers looked “like extrava- gant pins in a cushion already overplanted, and stuck in as in the dark, anywhere and anyhow.”

词汇	skyscraper
词源	skyscraper. The world’s first skyscraper office building was the 10-story Chicago office of the Home Insurance Company built in 1883 by architect William Le Baron Jenney. The fitting name skyscraper was given to this first building to employ steel skeleton construction, a building much higher than any other building of its time, but journalists had borrowed the word from the triangular sails that had long been used high on the masts of sailing vessels, scraping against the sky. Novelist Henry James wrote that Manhattan skyscrapers looked “like extrava- gant pins in a cushion already overplanted, and stuck in as in the dark, anywhere and anyhow.”
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