| 词汇 | speak softly and carry a big stick |
| 词源 | speak softly and carry a big stick. Apparently, this well- known proverb isn’t an American invention, but is African in origin. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations should note that Theod- ore Roosevelt’s biographer, H. F. Pringle, in his Theodore Roose- velt (1931), quotes Teddy as saying in the first recorded use of the expression: “I have always been fond of the West African proverb ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.’ ” Pringle has T. R. saying this in 1900; in the 1901 speech Bar- tlett’s quotes, Roosevelt prefaces the proverb with “There is a homely adage that runs. . . .” |
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