| 词源 |
slum; slumber. Slum, for “a squalid area of a city or town,” is a relatively new word first recorded in 1812. The O.E.D. won’t venture a guess at its origins, simply labeling it “cant,” but it has been suggested that slum may derive from slumber—perhaps because slum first meant the squalid room where a poor person slept, or perhaps because slum areas were erroneously thought to be sleepy, quiet places! Slumber comes from the Middle En- glish slumeren, “to doze.” |