doggy bag的词源
英文词源
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- capture
- capture: [16] Along with its relatives captive, captivity, captivate, and captor, capture is the English language’s most direct lineal descendant of Latin capere ‘take, seize’ (others include capable, case for carrying things, cater, and chase, and heave is distantly connected). First to arrive was captive [14], which was originally a verb, meaning ‘capture’; it came via Old French captiver from Latin captīvus, the past participle of capere.
Contemporary in English was the adjectival use of captive, from which the noun developed. (The now archaic caitiff [13] comes from the same ultimate source, via an altered Vulgar Latin *cactivus and Old French caitiff ‘captive’.) Next on the scene was capture, in the 16th century; originally it was only a noun, and it was not converted to verbal use until the late 18th century, when it replaced captive in this role.
Also 16th-century is captivate, from the past participle of late Latin captivāre, a derivative of captīvus; this too originally meant ‘capture’, a sense which did not die out until the 19th century: ‘The British … captivated four successive patrols’, John Neal, Brother Jonathan 1825.
=> captive, cater, chase, cop, heave
中文词源
doggy指小狗，也是对狗的爱称。doggy bag 则指就餐结束后餐馆为顾客提供的一种纸袋或塑料袋，供他们将吃不完的食物带回家。这在美国是惯常的做法，但在英国则不是。在美国，餐馆供应的菜肴分量一般比英国的多出许多，顾客通常都吃不完，而美国人从小养成不浪费食物的习惯，于是他们对于包走吃剩的食物丝毫不以为耻，认为索取袋子（bag）也不失礼节。那么又为什么冠之以doggy呢？据认为，人们一般都比较爱面子，菜多了吃不完，总觉得弃之可惜，要带回家留着吃又不便直说，就借口说是给狗吃的，所以在向侍者要袋子装剩菜时便称这类袋子为doggy bag，亦作doggie bag，直译是“狗食袋”。在美国餐馆，尤其是唐人街餐馆，一般都备有狗食袋供顾客索取。狗食袋上往往印有餐馆名字和菜名介绍等，既方便顾客又兼做广告，真可谓一举两得。
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