英文词源
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- envelope: [18] English borrowed envelope from French enveloppe in the sense ‘wrapper’, and more specifically ‘cover for a letter’, at the start of the 18th century. It was a derivative of the verb envelopper ‘wrap’, whose ancestor, envoloper, gave English envelop in the 14th century. As in the case of its first cousin develop, the origin of the verb remains a mystery.
It is a compound formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and voloper ‘wrap’, but the source of voloper has never been satisfactorily explained. It may come from a hypothetical Celtic base *vol- ‘roll’, but an equally good candidate is late Latin *faluppa ‘husk’, from which come Italian viluppo ‘bundle’ and viluppare ‘wrap’.
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中文词源
yesman：唯唯诺诺的人
像hot dog（热狗）一样，据信这也是美国著名漫画家多甘（T.D.Dorgan,1877-1929）创造的一个词。yesman 首次见于他1913年画的一幅名为 "Give the First Edition the Once Over" 的漫画。上面画着一位报纸编辑和他的几位助
手在查看刚印好的报纸，每位助手对该版报纸都被标以yes-man这一称号。嗣后，yes-man 被用以指好莱坞的助理导演，因为他们在上司面前不敢说一个“不”字。1929 年出片了一本书，书名就叫 Yes-Man's Land。开初，yes-man 仅用
作俚语，以后升级为口语，而且常被连写为yesman。该词总是用于贬义，意指“唯唯诺诺的人”或“应声虫”。另一种说法认为，yesman 可能直接译自德语Jaherr（相当于英语yes,sir）。1877年一位德国作家在描写美国时用了这个词
。不论是什么情况，无疑是漫画家多甘使yesman 一词得以推广使用的。