junket的词源

英文词源

junket (n.): late 14c., "basket in which fish are caught or carried," from Medieval Latin iuncata "rush basket," perhaps from Latin iuncus "rush." Shifted meaning by 1520s to "feast, banquet," probably via notion of a picnic basket, which led to extended sense of "pleasure trip" (1814), and then to "tour by government official at public expense for no discernable public benefit" (by 1886, American English). Compare Italian cognate giuncata "cream cheese" (originally made in a rush basket), a sense of junket also found in Middle English and preserved lately in dialects.

来自拉丁语iuncata,芦苇编织的篮子，来自拉丁语iuncus,芦苇，词源同junk.原义为提着一篮食物到外面郊游，野炊，引申词义欢乐游，后来用于指政府人员的公费旅游。

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