英语词汇freelance的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	freelance
词源	freelance. A freelance, for a self-employed person, is a term with an unsavory history. The original freelances were medieval Italian (condottiere) and French (compagnies grandes) knights, free men who would sell their skills with the lance to any mas- ter, whether his cause was good or bad. The name freelance for these knights was invented by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe (1820). Freelance doesn’t seem to have been applied to writers until about 60 years later.
随便看	give a damn give a deaf ear give a leg up give a little sugar give a man luck and throw him in the sea give and take give a sop to cerberus give a whaling to give a wide berth to give a wigging give her the gun give him an inch and he’ll take a mile give him enough rope to hang himself give him jesse give it up give me liberty or give me death give my regards to broadway given name give short shrift to someone give someone a cold deck give someone the bird give someone the gate bare as a milkpan when the cat-s been round barebones-s parliament barefaced liar

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