英语词汇stake a claim的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	stake a claim
词源	stake a claim. Surveyors still use wooden stakes to mark property lines, as they have done since colonial times in America. Beginning in the 1830s, U.S. gold prospectors marked with “claim stakes” property they had claimed where they would dig for gold, hoping to find a bonanza. Those who staked a claim, however, often never hit pay dirt. See pikes peak or bust.
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