| 词源 |
monkeyshines; monkey business. “You may have barefooted boys cutting up ‘monkeyshines’ on trees with entire safety to themselves,” observes one of the earliest writers to use monkey- shines, monkey-like antics, which is first recorded in 1828. Monkey business was recorded a little earlier, at the beginning of the century, both words suggested by the increasing number of monkeys imported by America’s growing circuses and zoos. |