spring-clean的词源
英文词源
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- cartoon
- cartoon: [17] Cartoon comes via French carton from Italian cartone, which meant literally ‘strong heavy paper, pasteboard’ (it was a derivative of carta ‘paper’, which came from Latin charta, source also of English card, carton, chart, and charter). Its meaning was in due course transferred to the preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper, the original and for nearly two centuries the only sense of the word in English; ‘But the sight best pleased me was the cartoons by Raphael, which are far beyond all the paintings I ever saw’, Hatton family correspondence, 1697.
Its application to comic drawings in newspapers and magazines began in the 1840s.
=> card, carton, chart, charter
中文词源
回构自 spring-cleaning,春天对屋子彻底打扫的习俗，通常认为起源于古波斯新年大扫除的传 统。比较中国过年大扫除。
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