英语词汇cheesecake的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cheesecake
词源	cheesecake; beefcake. The old story is that in 1912 New York Journal photographer James Kane was developing a picture of an actress that included “more of herself than either he or she expected.” As he looked at it, he searched for the greatest super- lative he knew of to express his delight and exclaimed, “That’s real cheesecake!” The word soon became synonymous with photographs of delectable models. In the 1970s, beefcake be- came the male equivalent.
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