| 词源 |
browsing. We associate browsing mainly with bookstores to- day, but the word, from the French broust, “young bud or shoot,” originally meant the feeding of animals such as cattle, deer, and goats on the leaves and shoots of trees and bushes; to browse was recorded as early as 1542 in this sense. Shakespeare seems to have been the first to use the word figuratively, in Cymbeline, but Charles Lamb first used it in its modern sense in his largely autobiographical Essays of Elia (1823): “He browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage [a good library].” |