英语词汇canoe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

canoe; paddle your own canoe. Abraham Lincoln’s frequent use of the phrase paddle your own canoe did much to make it popular, but Captain Frederick Marryat, that unflattering critic of American manners, seems to have been the first to have used the expression in its figurative sense, “be independent,” in his novel The Settlers in Canada (1844). Canoe probably derives from the Arawak word canoa, for “a small boat carved from a tree trunk,” which Columbus recorded in his diary and intro- duced into Spanish.

词汇	canoe
词源	canoe; paddle your own canoe. Abraham Lincoln’s frequent use of the phrase paddle your own canoe did much to make it popular, but Captain Frederick Marryat, that unflattering critic of American manners, seems to have been the first to have used the expression in its figurative sense, “be independent,” in his novel The Settlers in Canada (1844). Canoe probably derives from the Arawak word canoa, for “a small boat carved from a tree trunk,” which Columbus recorded in his diary and intro- duced into Spanish.
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