yesman的词源

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late: late: [OE] English and Dutch (with laat) are the only modern European languages to use this word to express the idea of ‘behind time’. It comes from an Indo-European base *lad- ‘slow, weary’, which also produced Latin lassus ‘tired’ (source of English alas [13] and lassitude [16]). In prehistoric Germanic this gave *lataz ‘slow, sluggish’.

Its English descendant late originally meant ‘slow’ (and the related German lass still means ‘lazy’), but although this survived dialectally into the 19th century, in the mainstream language ‘delayed’ had virtually replaced it by the 15th century. From the same ultimate Indo-European source come English lease, let, and liege.
=> alas, lassitude, last, lease, let, liege

像hot dog（热狗）一样，据信这也是美国著名漫画家多甘（T.D.Dorgan,1877-1929）创造的一个词。yesman 首次见于他1913年画的一幅名为 "Give the First Edition the Once Over" 的漫画。上面画着一位报纸编辑和他的几位助

手在查看刚印好的报纸，每位助手对该版报纸都被标以yes-man这一称号。嗣后，yes-man 被用以指好莱坞的助理导演，因为他们在上司面前不敢说一个“不”字。1929 年出片了一本书，书名就叫 Yes-Man's Land。开初，yes-man 仅用

作俚语，以后升级为口语，而且常被连写为yesman。该词总是用于贬义，意指“唯唯诺诺的人”或“应声虫”。另一种说法认为，yesman 可能直接译自德语Jaherr（相当于英语yes,sir）。1877年一位德国作家在描写美国时用了这个词

。不论是什么情况，无疑是漫画家多甘使yesman 一词得以推广使用的。

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：yesman 词源，yesman 含义。