英语词汇taxi的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	taxi
词源	taxi. Incensed about the high fares horse cabs were charging in 1907, Harry N. Allen introduced taximeter cabs in Manhat- tan, naming the 4-cylinder, 16-horsepower cabs he imported from France from the Greek taxa, “charge,” and the word cab, the common short form of the French cabriolet. Allen’s coinage became shortened to taxicab and finally taxi long before taxi fares far surpassed those of the horse-driven cabs.
随便看	not for love or money nothing in excess nothing is certain but death and taxes nothing like it to keep your ears pink nothing on the ball nothing to fear but fear itself no tickee no washee not in the same league with not just another pretty face notre pierre not right not so hot not the only pebble on the beach not to be sneezed at not to care a straw not to get the bat off one-s shoulder not to know beans not to know beef from bulls’ foot not to know if one is coming or going not to know one-s ass from one-s elbow not tonight josephine not to turn a hair not to worry not what it-s cracked up to be not worth a bean

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