英语词汇the hub的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the Hub. A nickname for Boston. The name possibly origi- nated from all the roads leading into the city like spokes to the hub of a wheel. However, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) Oliver Wendell Homes writes of a young man who told him he had heard that “Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system.” Holmes replied that to the residents of every oth- er town or city, “the axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each.” He concluded that “Boston is just like other places of its size—only, perhaps, considering its excellent fish market, paid fire-department, superior monthly publications, and correct habit of spelling the English language, it has some right to look down on the mob of cities . . .”

词汇	the hub
词源	the Hub. A nickname for Boston. The name possibly origi- nated from all the roads leading into the city like spokes to the hub of a wheel. However, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) Oliver Wendell Homes writes of a young man who told him he had heard that “Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system.” Holmes replied that to the residents of every oth- er town or city, “the axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each.” He concluded that “Boston is just like other places of its size—only, perhaps, considering its excellent fish market, paid fire-department, superior monthly publications, and correct habit of spelling the English language, it has some right to look down on the mob of cities . . .”
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