英语词汇interloper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	interloper
词源	interloper. The Russia Company, operated by Englishmen, had a virtual monopoly on Russian trade in the late 16th centu- ry, but Spanish traders bribed czarist officials in trying to break the monopoly, and the English in propagandizing against them coined the word interloper to describe the trespassers, building it from the Latin inter, “between,” and the English lope, “to run.”
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