英语词汇budget的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

budget. Originally, a budget was a leather bag or wallet, de- riving from the French bougette, wallet. The word’s meaning may have been extended to cover a statement of financial re- quirements when the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, in appearing before Parliament, began the custom of carrying pa- pers containing his annual statement of estimated revenues and expenses in a leather bag and “opening the budget” for the year. Another theory claims that in 1733 Sir Robert Walpole in- troduced an unpopular excise duties bill and a political pam- phleteer compared him to “a mounte-bank at a fair opening his budget of crank medicines,” the word budget from then on be- coming linked with government financial requirements.

词汇	budget
词源	budget. Originally, a budget was a leather bag or wallet, de- riving from the French bougette, wallet. The word’s meaning may have been extended to cover a statement of financial re- quirements when the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, in appearing before Parliament, began the custom of carrying pa- pers containing his annual statement of estimated revenues and expenses in a leather bag and “opening the budget” for the year. Another theory claims that in 1733 Sir Robert Walpole in- troduced an unpopular excise duties bill and a political pam- phleteer compared him to “a mounte-bank at a fair opening his budget of crank medicines,” the word budget from then on be- coming linked with government financial requirements.
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