英语词汇to pan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

to pan. Apparently the parent of this is the expression it didn’t pan out. American prospectors long before the California gold rush were expert at using metal mining pans to separate gold from the sand and gravel they scooped from a stream bed. When gold wasn’t found after the pan was shaken, miners would say that it hadn’t panned out. Similarly, when any effort, say a stage play, didn’t pan out, it didn’t succeed. After enough literary critics had said plays or books didn’t pan out, to criti- cize a production severely came to be known as panning it. An- other suggestion is that to pan derives from the head, or “pan,” of a tamping bar, which receives the blows of a sledgehammer, but the first recorded use of the word in this sense contains sev- eral allusions to mining processes, including panning.

词汇	to pan
词源	to pan. Apparently the parent of this is the expression it didn’t pan out. American prospectors long before the California gold rush were expert at using metal mining pans to separate gold from the sand and gravel they scooped from a stream bed. When gold wasn’t found after the pan was shaken, miners would say that it hadn’t panned out. Similarly, when any effort, say a stage play, didn’t pan out, it didn’t succeed. After enough literary critics had said plays or books didn’t pan out, to criti- cize a production severely came to be known as panning it. An- other suggestion is that to pan derives from the head, or “pan,” of a tamping bar, which receives the blows of a sledgehammer, but the first recorded use of the word in this sense contains sev- eral allusions to mining processes, including panning.
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