英语词汇bone的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bone; bone up on. Bones were once used to polish shoes, and some scholars have attempted to link such bones to the ex- pression to bone up on a subject, to study it hard and thorough- ly, especially for an exam. One would then “polish up” his knowledge, presumably, but bones probably have nothing to do with this term. It was first used in the 1860s by collegians, and they apparently first spelled the bone in the phrase Bohn, prob- ably referring to the Bohn translations of the classics, or “trots,” that they used in studying. British scholar Henry George Bohn (1796–1884) was the author and publisher of many books, in- cluding the “Classical Library.”

词汇	bone
词源	bone; bone up on. Bones were once used to polish shoes, and some scholars have attempted to link such bones to the ex- pression to bone up on a subject, to study it hard and thorough- ly, especially for an exam. One would then “polish up” his knowledge, presumably, but bones probably have nothing to do with this term. It was first used in the 1860s by collegians, and they apparently first spelled the bone in the phrase Bohn, prob- ably referring to the Bohn translations of the classics, or “trots,” that they used in studying. British scholar Henry George Bohn (1796–1884) was the author and publisher of many books, in- cluding the “Classical Library.”
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