英语词汇i’m from missouri的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

I’m from Missouri. During the Civil War, an officer of the Northern army fell upon a body of Confederate troops com- manded by a Missourian. The Northerner demanded a surrender, saying he had so many thousand men in his unit. The Confed- erate commander, game to the core, said he didn’t believe the Northerner’s boast of numerical superiority and appended the now famous expression, “I’m from Missouri; you’ll have to show me.” Dr. Walter B. Stevens recorded this proud derivation of the phrase in A Colonial History of Missouri (1921), but other authorities support the following derogatory origin: Miners from the lead district of southwest Missouri had been imported to work the mines in Leadville, Colorado, sometime after the Civil War. They were unfamiliar with the mining procedures in Leadville and fellow workers regarded them as slow to learn, their pit bosses constantly using the expression, “He’s from Missouri; you’ll have to show him.” Residents of the “Show Me” state obviously favor the former theory, in which “I’m from Mi- zorra” is a badge of distinction, signifying native skepticism and shrewdness.

词汇	i’m from missouri
词源	I’m from Missouri. During the Civil War, an officer of the Northern army fell upon a body of Confederate troops com- manded by a Missourian. The Northerner demanded a surrender, saying he had so many thousand men in his unit. The Confed- erate commander, game to the core, said he didn’t believe the Northerner’s boast of numerical superiority and appended the now famous expression, “I’m from Missouri; you’ll have to show me.” Dr. Walter B. Stevens recorded this proud derivation of the phrase in A Colonial History of Missouri (1921), but other authorities support the following derogatory origin: Miners from the lead district of southwest Missouri had been imported to work the mines in Leadville, Colorado, sometime after the Civil War. They were unfamiliar with the mining procedures in Leadville and fellow workers regarded them as slow to learn, their pit bosses constantly using the expression, “He’s from Missouri; you’ll have to show him.” Residents of the “Show Me” state obviously favor the former theory, in which “I’m from Mi- zorra” is a badge of distinction, signifying native skepticism and shrewdness.
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