英语词汇the grapevine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the grapevine. Some 15 years after Samuel Morse transmitted his famous “what hath God wrought” message, a long telegraph line was strung from Virginia City to Placerville, California, so crudely strung, it’s said, that people jokingly compared the line with a sagging grapevine. I can find no record of this, but, in any case, grapevines were associated with telegraph lines some- where along the line, for by the time of the Civil War a report by grapevine telegraph was common slang for a rumor. The idea behind the expression is probably not rumors sent over real tel- egraph lines, but the telegraphic speed with which rumormon- gers can transmit canards with their own rude mouth-to-mouth telegraph system.

词汇	the grapevine
词源	the grapevine. Some 15 years after Samuel Morse transmitted his famous “what hath God wrought” message, a long telegraph line was strung from Virginia City to Placerville, California, so crudely strung, it’s said, that people jokingly compared the line with a sagging grapevine. I can find no record of this, but, in any case, grapevines were associated with telegraph lines some- where along the line, for by the time of the Civil War a report by grapevine telegraph was common slang for a rumor. The idea behind the expression is probably not rumors sent over real tel- egraph lines, but the telegraphic speed with which rumormon- gers can transmit canards with their own rude mouth-to-mouth telegraph system.
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