英语词汇pinchbeck的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pinchbeck. Watch and toy maker Christopher Pinchbeck (1670–1732) died the same year that he introduced the pinch- beck alloy of 15 percent zinc and 85 percent copper, a gold- colored alloy for the imitation gold watches and jewelry he sold in his shop on London’s Fleet Street. Pinchbeck did not live to see pinchbeck become another word for “false or counterfeit, a cheap imitation.” The term caught on probably because its first syllable suggests “cheap,” which the alloy was, compared with gold, but whatever the reason, the word has survived. Anything spurious but resembling the genuine article is still called pinchbeck.

词汇	pinchbeck
词源	pinchbeck. Watch and toy maker Christopher Pinchbeck (1670–1732) died the same year that he introduced the pinch- beck alloy of 15 percent zinc and 85 percent copper, a gold- colored alloy for the imitation gold watches and jewelry he sold in his shop on London’s Fleet Street. Pinchbeck did not live to see pinchbeck become another word for “false or counterfeit, a cheap imitation.” The term caught on probably because its first syllable suggests “cheap,” which the alloy was, compared with gold, but whatever the reason, the word has survived. Anything spurious but resembling the genuine article is still called pinchbeck.
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