英语词汇peddler的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

peddler. Peddler derives from the Old English ped, “a pack in which articles were stored to be hawked about the streets.” In early America Yankee peddlers generally had a bad name, being “proverbial for their dishonesty,” according to one early observer, and Northerners probably got the name damn Yan- kee, coined long before the Civil War, from Yankee peddlers who worked the rural South. There are nevertheless many no- table exceptions. Among famous Americans who started as peddlers are Parson Weems, the biographer of Washington; Stephen Girard, the Philadelphia banker who helped America finance the War of 1812; Donald Alexander Smith, the Cana- dian fur trader who later headed the giant Hudson’s Bay Company; William Rockefeller, John D.’s father; Abraham Lincoln’s father; Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May; and inventors John Fitch and Thomas Edison. Department stores vehemently oppose peddling today, but, ironically, at least 15 great department stores were started by former peddlers, in- cluding Gimbel’s, Rich’s, Saks, and Goldwaters. See yankee; emporium.

词汇	peddler
词源	peddler. Peddler derives from the Old English ped, “a pack in which articles were stored to be hawked about the streets.” In early America Yankee peddlers generally had a bad name, being “proverbial for their dishonesty,” according to one early observer, and Northerners probably got the name damn Yan- kee, coined long before the Civil War, from Yankee peddlers who worked the rural South. There are nevertheless many no- table exceptions. Among famous Americans who started as peddlers are Parson Weems, the biographer of Washington; Stephen Girard, the Philadelphia banker who helped America finance the War of 1812; Donald Alexander Smith, the Cana- dian fur trader who later headed the giant Hudson’s Bay Company; William Rockefeller, John D.’s father; Abraham Lincoln’s father; Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May; and inventors John Fitch and Thomas Edison. Department stores vehemently oppose peddling today, but, ironically, at least 15 great department stores were started by former peddlers, in- cluding Gimbel’s, Rich’s, Saks, and Goldwaters. See yankee; emporium.
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