sabotage, slogan, sloganeer

Hanching Chung

2015年10月30日 13:43 · 

昨天注意到Joseph Juran 的著作中，有"工廠刻意破壞/停機"的英文sabotage有字源說明法國紡織場的織工將穿的木屐 (sabot，原以為是荷蘭人穿的)放入織機，讓其停機。

sabotage

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

• Deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage.

  ‘power lines from South Africa were sabotaged by rebel forces’

NOUN

• [mass noun] The action of sabotaging something.

  ‘a coordinated campaign of sabotage’

Origin

Early 20th century: from French, from saboter kick with sabots, wilfully destroy (see sabot).

今午的另一字源：* Elias Canetti《群眾與權力》（Masse und Macht, 1960）黃漢青 陳衛平譯，臺北：成均，1982（大陸似乎前年才有翻譯本？）2015.10.30 讀第一章，驚覺slogan 的字源的說法：Early 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, from sluagh 'army' + gairm 'shout'. 這據說是空中群靈的叫聲。其實{牛津字典}說法比較可信，他們古蘇格蘭的戰爭時的叫陣等聲音historical A Scottish Highland war cry.。

slogan

NOUN

• 1A short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising.

  ‘a series of arson attacks gave new meaning to the advertising slogan ‘come home to a real fire’’

  1. 1.1A motto associated with a political party or movement or other group.
     ‘students were chanting slogans’
• 2historical A Scottish Highland war cry.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, from sluagh army + gairm shout.

sloganeer

VERB

[NO OBJECT]

• Employ or invent slogans, typically in a political context.

  ‘at least he avoided vapid sloganeering’

NOUN

• A person who sloganeers.

  ‘as the sloganeers put it: ‘peace through strength’’