pen-driver 的意思
文书工作者; 作者; 文员
pen-driver 的词源
pen-driver(n.)
这个词最初是一个开玩笑或轻蔑的称呼,用来指代文书工作者或作家。它出现在1820年,来源于 pen(笔) + driver(驱动者)。更早的时候,人们称他们为 quill-driver(羽毛笔驱动者),大约在1760年。
The Author goes on, and tells us, "that the two thousand hogs were not driven into the sea by evil spirits, but by the two madmen, who, in one of their frantic fits, frightened them into it."— But is it not more than intimated that the men were restored to their right mind before the hogs took to their heels? Besides, that two madmen should drive two thousand such ungovernable creatures as hogs one way, does, I think, exceed the belief of any hog-driver on the road, if not of the pen-driver in his closet. [introduction to "Beelzebub Driving and Drowning his Hogs," a sermon on Mark v.12, 13, by James Burgess, 1820]
作者接着说,“这两千头猪不是被恶灵驱赶到海里的,而是被那两个疯子,在他们疯狂发作时吓进去的。”——但难道不可以推测,这些人是在猪们逃跑之前就恢复了理智吗?而且,两个疯子竟然能把两千头如此难以驯服的猪 one way(朝一个方向)驱赶过去,我认为这超出了任何一个猪驱动者的信念,甚至超出了那个在书房里的笔驱动者的信念。[摘自詹姆斯·伯吉斯于1820年发表的《贝尔泽布驱赶和淹没他的猪》,对马可福音5章12、13节的讲道引言]
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