英语词汇garage的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	garage
词源	garage. A garage originally was a place to moor a boat, not park a car. Garage is an early-19th-century French word mean- ing “a place where one docks.” The French began to use garage for “a place to keep a vehicle in” when the automobile became popular early in the 20th century and the English soon bor- rowed the word from them.
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