英语词汇take to the hustings的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

take to the hustings. A politician who takes to the hustings takes his campaign to the voters. Hustings were 18th-century platforms upon which candidates for Parliament made cam- paign speeches, named for a similar raised platform called the hustings where officials sat at the Court of Hustings, the su- preme court of the city of London. The Court of Hustings, which met at the Guildhall, took its name from the English husting, for “a council or court of law,” husting deriving from the Old Norse hust-thing (from the Old Norse hus, “royal house,” and thing, “council”), a royal council, as opposed to a general assembly.

词汇	take to the hustings
词源	take to the hustings. A politician who takes to the hustings takes his campaign to the voters. Hustings were 18th-century platforms upon which candidates for Parliament made cam- paign speeches, named for a similar raised platform called the hustings where officials sat at the Court of Hustings, the su- preme court of the city of London. The Court of Hustings, which met at the Guildhall, took its name from the English husting, for “a council or court of law,” husting deriving from the Old Norse hust-thing (from the Old Norse hus, “royal house,” and thing, “council”), a royal council, as opposed to a general assembly.
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