英语词汇broker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

broker. Brokers today are associated with stocks or real es- tate, but all brokers were originally brokieres, or men who opened up wine casks (usually to bottle and sell the wine in- side). This Old French word came to be transferred to wine salesmen, or brokers, and finally to one who sold anything at all. Wall Street brokers who work on the floor (or in the pit) of the exchange are called floor brokers; they were once called two-dollar brokers because they received a fee of two dollars per transaction.

词汇	broker
词源	broker. Brokers today are associated with stocks or real es- tate, but all brokers were originally brokieres, or men who opened up wine casks (usually to bottle and sell the wine in- side). This Old French word came to be transferred to wine salesmen, or brokers, and finally to one who sold anything at all. Wall Street brokers who work on the floor (or in the pit) of the exchange are called floor brokers; they were once called two-dollar brokers because they received a fee of two dollars per transaction.
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