Hobson的词源

英文词源

Hobson's choice (n.)

English university slang term, supposedly a reference to Thomas Hobson (c. 1544-1631), Cambridge stable manager who let horses and gave customers a choice of the horse next in line or none at all. Phrase popularized c. 1660 by Milton, who was at Cambridge from 1625-29.

Hobson-Jobson

1690s, hossen gossen, said to have been British soldiers' mangled Englishing of the Arabic cry they heard at Muharram processions in India, Ya Hasan! Ya Husayn! ("O Hassan! O Husain!"), mourning two grandsons of the Prophet who died fighting for the faith. Title of Yule & Burnell's 1886 glossary of Anglo-Indian words, and taken by linguists in naming the law of Hobson-Jobson, describing the effort to bring a new and strange word into harmony with the language.

中文词源

Hobson：’s choice 霍布森的选择，没得选择

来自17世纪伦敦做出租马匹生意的老板Thomas Hobson,为更好的保护爱马，让马得到适当的休息，他根本不容主顾选择的机会，只让其租离厩门最近的马，因此引申该词义。

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