英语词汇spoils system的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

spoils system. Often attributed to Andrew Jackson, this phrase did arise during his presidency, when the practice of giving appointive offices to loyal members of the party in power was first adopted on a large scale. However, the phrase was suggested by New York senator William Learned Marcy, who defended Jackson’s 1829 policy in a speech a year later. Marcy, a member of the Albany Regency, a political group controlled by “The Little Fox,” Martin Van Buren, rose in the Senate to defend the appointment of Van Buren as minister to England, his public defense of this political patronage being “the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of war.” This re- mark led to the anonymous coining of spoils system, the phrase first recorded in 1838. The political atmosphere of an era can often be seen in the expressions born in that period and during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations we find the following first used in a political sense: dyed in the wool (1830), party line (1834), picayune (1837), party machin- ery (1829), wirepuller (1832), and even exposé (1830), among others. See also o.k.

词汇	spoils system
词源	spoils system. Often attributed to Andrew Jackson, this phrase did arise during his presidency, when the practice of giving appointive offices to loyal members of the party in power was first adopted on a large scale. However, the phrase was suggested by New York senator William Learned Marcy, who defended Jackson’s 1829 policy in a speech a year later. Marcy, a member of the Albany Regency, a political group controlled by “The Little Fox,” Martin Van Buren, rose in the Senate to defend the appointment of Van Buren as minister to England, his public defense of this political patronage being “the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of war.” This re- mark led to the anonymous coining of spoils system, the phrase first recorded in 1838. The political atmosphere of an era can often be seen in the expressions born in that period and during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations we find the following first used in a political sense: dyed in the wool (1830), party line (1834), picayune (1837), party machin- ery (1829), wirepuller (1832), and even exposé (1830), among others. See also o.k.
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