英语词汇tally的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tally. Tallies, or wooden sticks, were used to keep accounts in the British Royal Exchequer in medieval times. To make a tally, a notched stick of wood (the number of notches equaling the amount of money owed) was split down the center, each half stick retaining half of the notches—one half being given to the party owed money and the other being retained by the Exche- quer. No money would be paid by the Exchequer unless a tally, or match of the sticks, was made. This cumbersome system, of- ten involving notched sticks six feet or more long, wasn’t aban- doned until 1834, when all the remaining sticks were burned in the furnace of the House of Lords, which overheated the flues and caused the House of Parliament to burn down in the pro- cess! But the tallies did contribute the word tally, which today means count, to the language. See just in the nick of time.

词汇	tally
词源	tally. Tallies, or wooden sticks, were used to keep accounts in the British Royal Exchequer in medieval times. To make a tally, a notched stick of wood (the number of notches equaling the amount of money owed) was split down the center, each half stick retaining half of the notches—one half being given to the party owed money and the other being retained by the Exche- quer. No money would be paid by the Exchequer unless a tally, or match of the sticks, was made. This cumbersome system, of- ten involving notched sticks six feet or more long, wasn’t aban- doned until 1834, when all the remaining sticks were burned in the furnace of the House of Lords, which overheated the flues and caused the House of Parliament to burn down in the pro- cess! But the tallies did contribute the word tally, which today means count, to the language. See just in the nick of time.
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