英语词汇clerk的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

clerk. Clerks were originally scholars; the word clerk is sim- ply a slurred pronunciation of the word cleric, which in medie- val times meant a member of a religious order, all of whom were regarded as scholars because they could read and write. When education became more widespread, the term clerk gradually lost its scholarly connotation and assumed the mean- ing it has today, surviving in its old sense in legal circles, where, for example, a clerk to a Supreme Court Justice is still consid- ered a scholar.

词汇	clerk
词源	clerk. Clerks were originally scholars; the word clerk is sim- ply a slurred pronunciation of the word cleric, which in medie- val times meant a member of a religious order, all of whom were regarded as scholars because they could read and write. When education became more widespread, the term clerk gradually lost its scholarly connotation and assumed the mean- ing it has today, surviving in its old sense in legal circles, where, for example, a clerk to a Supreme Court Justice is still consid- ered a scholar.
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