英语词汇self-starter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	self-starter
词源	self-starter. Self-starter has come to mean “someone who doesn’t need much help in performing a task,” who has a re- markable amount of initiative. It is an Americanism dating back to 1894 and originally referred to an attachment for start- ing a car’s engine without hand cranking.
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