英语词汇talk turkey的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

talk turkey. According to an old story, back in Colonial days a white hunter unevenly divided the spoils of a day’s hunt with his Indian companion. Of the four crows and four wild turkeys they had bagged, the hunter handed a crow to the Indian, took a turkey for himself, then handed a second crow to the Indian and put still another turkey in his own bag. All the while he kept saying, “You may take this crow and I will take this turkey,” or something similar, but the Indian wasn’t as gullible as the hunter thought. When he had finished dividing the kill, the In- dian protested: “You talk all turkey for you. You never once talk turkey for me! Now I talk turkey to you.” He then proceeded to take his fair share. Most scholars agree that from this probably apocryphal tale, first printed in 1830, comes the expression let’s talk turkey, “let’s get down to real business.”

词汇	talk turkey
词源	talk turkey. According to an old story, back in Colonial days a white hunter unevenly divided the spoils of a day’s hunt with his Indian companion. Of the four crows and four wild turkeys they had bagged, the hunter handed a crow to the Indian, took a turkey for himself, then handed a second crow to the Indian and put still another turkey in his own bag. All the while he kept saying, “You may take this crow and I will take this turkey,” or something similar, but the Indian wasn’t as gullible as the hunter thought. When he had finished dividing the kill, the In- dian protested: “You talk all turkey for you. You never once talk turkey for me! Now I talk turkey to you.” He then proceeded to take his fair share. Most scholars agree that from this probably apocryphal tale, first printed in 1830, comes the expression let’s talk turkey, “let’s get down to real business.”
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