logroll的词源

英文词源

logrolling (n.)

also log-rolling, in the legislative vote-trading sense, 1823, American English, from the notion of neighbors on the frontier helping one another with the heavy work of clearing land and building cabins (as in phrase you roll my log and I'll roll yours); see log (n.1) + rolling.

LOG-ROLLING. 1. In the lumber regions of Maine it is customary for men of different logging camps to appoint days for helping each other in rolling the logs to the river, after they are felled and trimmed -- this rolling being about the hardest work incident to the business. Thus the men of three or four camps will unite, say on Monday, to roll for camp No. 1, -- on Tuesday for camp No. 2, -- on Wednesday for camp No. 3, -- and so on, through the whole number of camps within convenient distance of each other. [Bartlett]

中文词源

logroll（互助）：殖民者相互协助搬运原木

早期殖民者来到美洲大陆时，条件非常艰苦。殖民者需要砍倒大树，清理土地，修建房屋。由于砍倒的原木（log）太重，一个人无法帮运，需要邻居帮忙，大家齐心协力滚动原木。因此人们就用“you roll my log and I'll roll yours”（你帮我滚原木，我也会帮你滚原木）来形容“相互协助”，简略为logroll。现在通常用来表示相互投赞成票的政治交易。

logroll：['lɒɡrəʊl]vt.互投赞成票使通过vi.互相捧场，互助

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