英语词汇coach的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

coach. The little village of Kocs in northwestern Hungary is responsible for the word coach in all its senses of the word “car- riage” and for academic and athletic coaches as well. In the 15th century an unknown carriage maker in Kocs devised a larger, more comfortable carriage than any known at the time. It was called a Koczi szeter, a “wagon of Kocs,” which was shortened to kocsi. Copied all over Europe in the next century it eventually became a coche and then a coach in English. From the name of the English horse-drawn coach came all stagecoaches, motor coaches, and finally air coaches. Coach, for “an instructor,” arose as college slang—a coach was a figurative carriage whose coaching would “carry” you through exams. The same idea was applied to athletic coaches, who were, however, known as coachers up until the late 1880s, when they became coaches.

词汇	coach
词源	coach. The little village of Kocs in northwestern Hungary is responsible for the word coach in all its senses of the word “car- riage” and for academic and athletic coaches as well. In the 15th century an unknown carriage maker in Kocs devised a larger, more comfortable carriage than any known at the time. It was called a Koczi szeter, a “wagon of Kocs,” which was shortened to kocsi. Copied all over Europe in the next century it eventually became a coche and then a coach in English. From the name of the English horse-drawn coach came all stagecoaches, motor coaches, and finally air coaches. Coach, for “an instructor,” arose as college slang—a coach was a figurative carriage whose coaching would “carry” you through exams. The same idea was applied to athletic coaches, who were, however, known as coachers up until the late 1880s, when they became coaches.
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