英语词汇coolie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

coolie. Coolies did not originally come from China. The word for an unskilled laborer almost certainly derives from the name of the aboriginal Kuli or Koli tribe of Gujerat, an Indian province. Ironically, coolie labor emigration came about mainly as the result of the outlawing of slavery in British colonies in 1834. Cheap labor was needed, and obtained, primarily from India and China in the form of natives hired under five-year contracts that were enforceable by prison terms. Conditions were often intolerable for these coolies, of whom the Kulis were apparently the first, their home on the northern Indian coast making it easy to recruit them. Many thousands of them died on the long voyages aboard coolie ships, which were often as inhuman as African slave ships. Another possible source for the word coolie is the Urdu or Tamil kuli—both words meaning “hireling”—but most writers support the Indian tribe theory.

词汇	coolie
词源	coolie. Coolies did not originally come from China. The word for an unskilled laborer almost certainly derives from the name of the aboriginal Kuli or Koli tribe of Gujerat, an Indian province. Ironically, coolie labor emigration came about mainly as the result of the outlawing of slavery in British colonies in 1834. Cheap labor was needed, and obtained, primarily from India and China in the form of natives hired under five-year contracts that were enforceable by prison terms. Conditions were often intolerable for these coolies, of whom the Kulis were apparently the first, their home on the northern Indian coast making it easy to recruit them. Many thousands of them died on the long voyages aboard coolie ships, which were often as inhuman as African slave ships. Another possible source for the word coolie is the Urdu or Tamil kuli—both words meaning “hireling”—but most writers support the Indian tribe theory.
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