英语词汇jack of all trades and master of none的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Jack of all trades and master of none. The eloquent term for a Jack of all trades and master of none is a sciolist, which is Latin for “smatterer,” and means someone having a smattering of knowledge, a little learning. Jack of all trades and master of none extends the little learning to a lot of things. The expression is first recorded in 1618 as Jack of all trades and seems to have been a complimentary term for someone who could do any kind of work. But within a century the work of Jack of all trades was being disparaged as not expert enough (specialization be- coming more important every year) and by at least 1878 the de- rogatory expression Jack of all trades and master of none was being used.

词汇	jack of all trades and master of none
词源	Jack of all trades and master of none. The eloquent term for a Jack of all trades and master of none is a sciolist, which is Latin for “smatterer,” and means someone having a smattering of knowledge, a little learning. Jack of all trades and master of none extends the little learning to a lot of things. The expression is first recorded in 1618 as Jack of all trades and seems to have been a complimentary term for someone who could do any kind of work. But within a century the work of Jack of all trades was being disparaged as not expert enough (specialization be- coming more important every year) and by at least 1878 the de- rogatory expression Jack of all trades and master of none was being used.
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