英语词汇grub street hack的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

—Oliver Goldsmith Grub Street in London was known a century before Dr. John- son’s lifetime as the stamping ground of (depending on your perspective) needy writers or literary hacks (from hackney, “a horse or carriage anyone could hire”). When compiling his fa- mous Dictionary of the English Language (1755) the Great Cham defined Grub Street as “much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet.” The term lasted even after the street name disappeared, probably because it suggests writers grubbing (from the Middle English grobben, “to dig”) for money for grub (as Johnson himself was forced to do) and often producing cheap works in the process. Grub Street has been called Milton Street since 1830—not in honor of the great poet John Milton, but after a landlord who owned most of the houses on the street at the time.

词汇	grub street hack
词源	Grub Street hack. Here lies poor Ned Purdom, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller’s hack; He led such a damnable life in this world, I don’t think he’d wish to come back. —Oliver Goldsmith Grub Street in London was known a century before Dr. John- son’s lifetime as the stamping ground of (depending on your perspective) needy writers or literary hacks (from hackney, “a horse or carriage anyone could hire”). When compiling his fa- mous Dictionary of the English Language (1755) the Great Cham defined Grub Street as “much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet.” The term lasted even after the street name disappeared, probably because it suggests writers grubbing (from the Middle English grobben, “to dig”) for money for grub (as Johnson himself was forced to do) and often producing cheap works in the process. Grub Street has been called Milton Street since 1830—not in honor of the great poet John Milton, but after a landlord who owned most of the houses on the street at the time.
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