coffee-house 的意思
咖啡馆; 提供咖啡和其他饮品的社交场所; 文化和政治交流的中心
coffee-house 的词源
coffee-house(n.)
也可以称为 coffeehouse,意思是“提供咖啡和其他饮品的娱乐场所”,这个词最早出现在1610年代,由 coffee(咖啡)和 house(房子,场所)组合而成。在17世纪晚期的伦敦,这些咖啡馆成为了重要的政治中心,类似于后来的社交俱乐部;每个宗派和政党都有自己专属的咖啡馆。
The coffee-house must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time [1685], have been not improperly called a most important political institution. No Parliament had sat for years. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. Public meetings, harangues, resolutions, and the rest of the modern machinery of agitation had not yet come into fashion. Nothing resembling the modern newspaper existed. In such circumstances, the coffee-were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. [Macaulay, "History of England"]
咖啡馆绝不能被草率提及。事实上,在1685年那个时期,它可以被称为一个极其重要的政治机构。多年来,议会一直没有召开。城市的市政委员会也不再代表市民的声音。公众会议、演讲、决议以及现代激进活动的其他形式尚未流行。那时并没有类似现代报纸的东西。在这样的背景下,咖啡馆成为了公众舆论在大城市中表达的主要渠道。[麦考利,《英国史》]
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