英语词汇brother jonathan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Brother Jonathan. Brother Jonathan was originally Con- necticut governor and minister Jonathan Trumbull (1710–85), one of the few colonial governors to stand up for the rights of the colonists. The redoubtable Trumbull was a trusted friend and adviser of George Washington, and an unsupported story has it that General Washington, when he needed ammunition and none of his officers could solve the problem, declared, “We must consult Brother Jonathan on this.” Trumbull came up with a solution and Washington’s remark became proverbial in time. Washington did rank Trumbull “the first among patriots,” and the term Brother Jonathan for an American first appeared in print in 1816. Some debunkers point out, however, that Jonathan was a very common American name at the time and that the British had used Brother Jonathan in allusion to the Puritans as early as the 17th century.

词汇	brother jonathan
词源	Brother Jonathan. Brother Jonathan was originally Con- necticut governor and minister Jonathan Trumbull (1710–85), one of the few colonial governors to stand up for the rights of the colonists. The redoubtable Trumbull was a trusted friend and adviser of George Washington, and an unsupported story has it that General Washington, when he needed ammunition and none of his officers could solve the problem, declared, “We must consult Brother Jonathan on this.” Trumbull came up with a solution and Washington’s remark became proverbial in time. Washington did rank Trumbull “the first among patriots,” and the term Brother Jonathan for an American first appeared in print in 1816. Some debunkers point out, however, that Jonathan was a very common American name at the time and that the British had used Brother Jonathan in allusion to the Puritans as early as the 17th century.
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