hansom的词源

英文词源

hansom

hansom: [19] The hansom cab, the taxi of the second half of the 19th century, was the brainchild of James Aloysius Hansom (1803– 82), an architect, whose other main claim to fame is that he designed Birmingham town hall. In 1834 he took out a patent for a Safety Cab, which included many features incorporated into the hansom cab when it came into general use in the late 1840s. In the 1890s the word was used as a verb: ‘To think that I … a raging Democrat, should be hansoming it to and fro between my Ladies and Honourables’, Sabine Baring-Gould Armine 1890.

hansom (n.)

"two-wheeled, two-person cab or carriage with the driver's seat above and behind," 1847, from James A. Hansom (1803-1882), English architect who designed such a vehicle c. 1834. The surname is from 17c., originally a nickname, handsome.

中文词源

hansom：双轮双座马车

来自该马车的设计者19世纪英国建筑师James Hansom.

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hansom：双轮双座马车　　

该词与意为“美观的”的handsome 一词没有什么联系。它源自英国建筑师Joseph A. Hansom (1803 - 1882)的姓氏。他于1834年醴计了双轮双座马车并获得专利权，它和原先马车不同之处是车座较低，御座高居车后，便于车夫驾御，便于乘客私下谈话和观看景色，比较轻便安全。因此，一百多年来一直是伦敦乃至全世界最受欢迎的一种马车。据说，直至1944年这种马车在伦敦才最后消失，但今天在纽约中央公园附近仍时而可以见到一些，专供游容租用。hansom原作Hansom cab，以后略去cab，HanSom的首字母也因普通名词化而变为小写。