英语词汇colporteur的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

colporteur. Today’s book salesmen follow an honorable call- ing, one that dates back hundreds of years to when their kind carried Bibles and other books in a basket or pack hanging from their necks by a strap. For this reason they were, and sometimes still are, called colporteurs, from the French col, “neck,” and porter, “to carry.” Typical of these was Old Parson Weems, noted for his charming fabrication of George Wash- ington chopping down the cherry tree, not to mention his bold Homeric yarns about Ben Franklin and General Francis “the Swamp Fox” Marion.

词汇	colporteur
词源	colporteur. Today’s book salesmen follow an honorable call- ing, one that dates back hundreds of years to when their kind carried Bibles and other books in a basket or pack hanging from their necks by a strap. For this reason they were, and sometimes still are, called colporteurs, from the French col, “neck,” and porter, “to carry.” Typical of these was Old Parson Weems, noted for his charming fabrication of George Wash- ington chopping down the cherry tree, not to mention his bold Homeric yarns about Ben Franklin and General Francis “the Swamp Fox” Marion.
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