Cascade Range的词源
英文词源
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- jazz
- jazz: [20] Words of unknown origin always attract speculation, and it is hardly surprising that such an unusual and high-profile one as jazz (first recorded in 1913) should have had more than its fair share (one of the more ingenious and colourful theories is that it comes from the nickname of one Jasbo Brown, an itinerant black musician along the Mississippi – Jasbo perhaps being an alteration of Jasper).
Given that the word emerged in Black English (probably originally in the sense ‘copulation’), it is not surprising that attempts have been made to link it with some West African language, and picture it crossing the Atlantic with the slave ships, but there is no convincing evidence for that (the scenario seems to have got started with a 1917 article in the New York Sun, which was purely the invention of a press agent).
中文词源
又作瀑布山或喀斯喀特山，美国西北部的重要山脉之一，由一系列活火山构成。由美国建国初期的著名探险家刘易斯和克拉克命名。他们到达哥伦比亚河后，在这座山周围发现了大量的激流和瀑布（瀑布在英文里可以叫做cascade），因此他们将这座山叫做mountains by the cascades，意思是挨着瀑布的山。后来这座山就被叫做Cascade了。
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