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pen-driver的词源解释,pen-driver来源

pen-driver(n.)

这是一个对文员或作者的戏谑或轻蔑的词语,起源于1820年,由 pen (n.1) + driver 组成。早在1760年,就有了 quill-driver

The Author goes on, and tells us, "that the two thousand hogs were not driven into the sea by evil spirits, but by the two madmen, who, in one of their frantic fits, frightened them into it."— But is it not more than intimated that the men were restored to their right mind before the hogs took to their heels? Besides, that two madmen should drive two thousand such ungovernable creatures as hogs one way, does, I think, exceed the belief of any hog-driver on the road, if not of the pen-driver in his closet. [introduction to "Beelzebub Driving and Drowning his Hogs," a sermon on Mark v.12, 13, by James Burgess, 1820]
作者继续写道:"那两千头猪并非被恶魔赶入海中,而是被那两个疯子在他们的疯狂发作中吓进去的。"——但是,是否不是暗示了这两个人在猪群逃窜之前就恢复了理智?此外,两个疯子能驱赶两千头如此难以驾驭的猪 one way,我认为这超出了任何一个在路上驱猪的人的信念,如果不是在他的小屋里写字的人的信念。[引自"Beelzebub Driving and Drowning his Hogs," 一篇关于马可福音 v.12, 13的布道,由 James Burgess 于1820年撰写]

该词起源时间:1820年