| 词汇 | greenhorn |
| 词源 | greenhorn. Authorities reason, without any proof, that greenhorn was first the name for a young ox, one with young, or “green,” horns. Because young oxen were inexperienced and untrained as farm work animals, they were undesirable, and their name became attached to raw army recruits by the 16th century and finally to any raw, inexperienced person. Green- horn is also remembered as a derogatory term for newly arrived immigrants in turn-of-the-century America. |
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