英语词汇polka的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

polka; polka dot. At least four dances have been named for the Poles by other countries, and the most popular of them, the polka, is not even Polish in origin. Polka simply means a Polish woman, just as Polak, which gives us the slang derogatory ex- pression Polock, means a Polish man. Either the Czechs called the Bohemian dance pulka (“half ”) because of its short half- steps and this word became corrupted to polka, or they named it as a tribute to Polish womankind. At any rate, the lively dance—three steps and a hop in double time—took Europe and America by storm after it was introduced about 1830. The polka craze resulted in many fashionable garments and designs being named after the dance, including a close-fitting knitted jacket called the polka, and even the American dress fabric with a polka-dot pattern, introduced in 1880 or so. Polka dot may have been inspired by the hopping around characteristic of the polka. Its use was originally confined to the uniform, evenly spaced dots in the material, but the words polka dot or polka dotted are widely applied today.

词汇	polka
词源	polka; polka dot. At least four dances have been named for the Poles by other countries, and the most popular of them, the polka, is not even Polish in origin. Polka simply means a Polish woman, just as Polak, which gives us the slang derogatory ex- pression Polock, means a Polish man. Either the Czechs called the Bohemian dance pulka (“half ”) because of its short half- steps and this word became corrupted to polka, or they named it as a tribute to Polish womankind. At any rate, the lively dance—three steps and a hop in double time—took Europe and America by storm after it was introduced about 1830. The polka craze resulted in many fashionable garments and designs being named after the dance, including a close-fitting knitted jacket called the polka, and even the American dress fabric with a polka-dot pattern, introduced in 1880 or so. Polka dot may have been inspired by the hopping around characteristic of the polka. Its use was originally confined to the uniform, evenly spaced dots in the material, but the words polka dot or polka dotted are widely applied today.
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