英语词汇streetwalker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

streetwalker. The use of this term for “a prostitute who works the streets,” is an ancient one—older than the use of streetwalker for a pedestrian. It is first recorded by Shakespeare’s detractor, dramatist Robert Greene, the same Bohemian who died of a surfeit of pickled herrings and Rhenish wine. In a tract on “Conny-catching” written in 1592, in which he describes Lon- don’s lowlife, Greene wrote of “street walkers . . . in rich garded [attention-getting] gowns.” It wasn’t until almost three decades later that streetwalkers was applied to anyone who walks in the street.

词汇	streetwalker
词源	streetwalker. The use of this term for “a prostitute who works the streets,” is an ancient one—older than the use of streetwalker for a pedestrian. It is first recorded by Shakespeare’s detractor, dramatist Robert Greene, the same Bohemian who died of a surfeit of pickled herrings and Rhenish wine. In a tract on “Conny-catching” written in 1592, in which he describes Lon- don’s lowlife, Greene wrote of “street walkers . . . in rich garded [attention-getting] gowns.” It wasn’t until almost three decades later that streetwalkers was applied to anyone who walks in the street.
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