英语词汇alaska的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Alaska. seward’s folly, seward’s icebox, Seward’s ice- berg, Icebergia, and Walrussia were all epithets for the 600,000 square miles now known as Alaska. All of these de- nunciations today honor one of the great visionaries of American history, William Henry Seward. Seward’s most im- portant work in Andrew Johnson’s administration was the purchase of Alaska, then known as Russian America, from the Russians in 1867. Negotiating with Russian Ambassador Baron Stoeckl, the shrewd lawyer managed to talk the Rus- sians down from their asking price of $10 million to $7.2 million, and got them to throw in a profitable fur-trading corporation. The treaty was negotiated and drafted in the course of a single night and because Alaska was purchased almost solely due to his determination—he even managed to have the treaty signed before the House voted the neces- sary appropriation—it was widely called “Seward’s folly” by irate politicians and journalists. Seward himself named the new territory Alaska, from the Aleut A-la-as-ka, “the great country.”

词汇	alaska
词源	Alaska. seward’s folly, seward’s icebox, Seward’s ice- berg, Icebergia, and Walrussia were all epithets for the 600,000 square miles now known as Alaska. All of these de- nunciations today honor one of the great visionaries of American history, William Henry Seward. Seward’s most im- portant work in Andrew Johnson’s administration was the purchase of Alaska, then known as Russian America, from the Russians in 1867. Negotiating with Russian Ambassador Baron Stoeckl, the shrewd lawyer managed to talk the Rus- sians down from their asking price of $10 million to $7.2 million, and got them to throw in a profitable fur-trading corporation. The treaty was negotiated and drafted in the course of a single night and because Alaska was purchased almost solely due to his determination—he even managed to have the treaty signed before the House voted the neces- sary appropriation—it was widely called “Seward’s folly” by irate politicians and journalists. Seward himself named the new territory Alaska, from the Aleut A-la-as-ka, “the great country.”
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