英语词汇graft的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

graft. This American term for dishonest earnings, usually of politicians, isn’t recorded until 1859. Its origins are unclear, but the word may derive from the British slang graft, for “any kind of work, especially illicit work,” which, in turn, may come from the British graer, “to dig,” influenced, Partridge says, by the gar- dening graft. The gardening graft derives, ultimately, from the Greek word grapheion, “a bone or wood pencil-like instrument used for writing on wax tablets.” Someone in early times possi- bly thought that a grapheion resembled a twig for grafting.

词汇	graft
词源	graft. This American term for dishonest earnings, usually of politicians, isn’t recorded until 1859. Its origins are unclear, but the word may derive from the British slang graft, for “any kind of work, especially illicit work,” which, in turn, may come from the British graer, “to dig,” influenced, Partridge says, by the gar- dening graft. The gardening graft derives, ultimately, from the Greek word grapheion, “a bone or wood pencil-like instrument used for writing on wax tablets.” Someone in early times possi- bly thought that a grapheion resembled a twig for grafting.
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