cliche的词源

英文词源

cliché: cliché: [19] Originally, French clicher meant literally ‘stereotype’ – that is, ‘print from a plate made by making a type-metal cast from a mould of a printing surface’. The word was supposedly imitative of the sound made when the mould was dropped into the molten type metal. Hence a word or phrase that was cliché – had literally been repeated time and time again in identical form from a single printing plate – had become hackneyed.
cliche (n.): 1825, "electrotype, stereotype," from French cliché, a technical word in printer's jargon for "stereotype block," noun use of past participle of clicher "to click" (18c.), supposedly echoic of the sound of a mold striking molten metal. Figurative extension to "trite phrase, worn-out expression" is first attested 1888, following the course of stereotype. Related: Cliched (1928).

这个单词来自法语，是一个印刷术语，表示“凸印版”、“铅版”。一块铅版可以反复使用，印出多份材料。一个词语也或某种表达方式可以反复使用，直到成为老生常谈的陈词滥调。所以人们就用cliche（铅版）来比喻陈词滥调。

cliche：['kli:ʃei] n.陈词滥调，铅版

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cliche 词源，cliche 含义。

来自click,点击声。来自打印术语，比喻千篇一律，陈词滥调。