muckraking的词源

英文词源

muckraking

"The action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people", Coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake.

中文词源

muckraking：揭发黑幕

muck,粪肥，raking,耙子，耙地。讽刺用法，最早来自美国总统罗斯福在1906 年的一次演讲 讽刺记者，后来被记者们用以自嘲并欣然接受该称呼。比较Yankee.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：muckraking 词源，muckraking 含义。