英语词汇make good的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make good. To succeed, prosper, or fulfill a promise, as in “He made good on his word.” This Americanism was born as a poker term, which is explained in the manual Poker: How to Play It (1882): “When all who wish to play has gone in, the per- son putting the ante . . . can play like the others by ‘making good’—that is, putting up in addition to the ante as much more as will make him equal in stake to the rest.” By the turn of the 19th century the poker term was being used figuratively.

词汇	make good
词源	make good. To succeed, prosper, or fulfill a promise, as in “He made good on his word.” This Americanism was born as a poker term, which is explained in the manual Poker: How to Play It (1882): “When all who wish to play has gone in, the per- son putting the ante . . . can play like the others by ‘making good’—that is, putting up in addition to the ante as much more as will make him equal in stake to the rest.” By the turn of the 19th century the poker term was being used figuratively.
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