英语词汇machine politics的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

machine politics. Volunteer firemen in the early 19th century learned to work smoothly as a team on the levers of water- pumping machines, and perhaps, as one investigator suggests, their well-organized political associations suggested the term machine politics for this reason. Aaron Burr, who converted New York’s patriotic Tammany Society into the political Tam- many Hall we know today, is often credited with inventing the phrase, but then so are Nathaniel Hawthorne and even the duke of Wellington. The use of machine in a political sense, however, doesn’t seem to have been recorded until 1865.

词汇	machine politics
词源	machine politics. Volunteer firemen in the early 19th century learned to work smoothly as a team on the levers of water- pumping machines, and perhaps, as one investigator suggests, their well-organized political associations suggested the term machine politics for this reason. Aaron Burr, who converted New York’s patriotic Tammany Society into the political Tam- many Hall we know today, is often credited with inventing the phrase, but then so are Nathaniel Hawthorne and even the duke of Wellington. The use of machine in a political sense, however, doesn’t seem to have been recorded until 1865.
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