英语词汇cadillac的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Cadillac. Cadillac, which is of course a trade name, has long been to expensive automobiles what ford has been to low- priced cars. Ironically, the Detroit Automobile Company, formed by Henry Ford in 1899, was the forerunner of the Ca- dillac Company, Cadillac later being absorbed by General Motors. The Cadillac, in the United States and elsewhere, has become a symbol of success to some, vulgar pretension to oth- ers, and is a synonym for an expensive car to all. It bears the name of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658–1730), a minor nobleman and French colonial governor who, in 1701, found- ed Detroit as an important post for French control of the fur trade. Cadillac also established a trading post in what is now Cadillac, Michigan, on Lake Cadillac. Unlike the car bearing his name, the Frenchman seems to have been popular with no one. Neither Indians nor settlers could get along with him at Fort Pontchartrain (present-day Detroit), and his later gover- norship of the vast Louisiana Territory (1711–16) met with similar hostility. Cadillac, recalled to France, died in his native Gascony.

词汇	cadillac
词源	Cadillac. Cadillac, which is of course a trade name, has long been to expensive automobiles what ford has been to low- priced cars. Ironically, the Detroit Automobile Company, formed by Henry Ford in 1899, was the forerunner of the Ca- dillac Company, Cadillac later being absorbed by General Motors. The Cadillac, in the United States and elsewhere, has become a symbol of success to some, vulgar pretension to oth- ers, and is a synonym for an expensive car to all. It bears the name of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658–1730), a minor nobleman and French colonial governor who, in 1701, found- ed Detroit as an important post for French control of the fur trade. Cadillac also established a trading post in what is now Cadillac, Michigan, on Lake Cadillac. Unlike the car bearing his name, the Frenchman seems to have been popular with no one. Neither Indians nor settlers could get along with him at Fort Pontchartrain (present-day Detroit), and his later gover- norship of the vast Louisiana Territory (1711–16) met with similar hostility. Cadillac, recalled to France, died in his native Gascony.
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