来自法语 sabotage,捣乱,破坏,来自 sabot,木鞋,来自中古法语 savate,旧鞋子,词源同 sabaton, 护脚甲,savate,法国腿踢,ciabatta,拖鞋面包。现词义据说是来自 18,19 世纪机器工业刚兴 起时,手工业者担心机器会抢走他们的饭碗,愤而把木鞋扔进机器里面破坏机器运转。
SABOTAGE [chapter heading] The title we have prefixed seems to mean "scamping work." It is a device which, we are told, has been adopted by certain French workpeople as a substitute for striking. The workman, in other words, purposes to remain on and to do his work badly, so as to annoy his employer's customers and cause loss to his employer. ["The Liberty Review," January 1907]
You may believe that sabotage is murder, and so forth, but it is not so at all. Sabotage means giving back to the bosses what they give to us. Sabotage consists in going slow with the process of production when the bosses go slow with the same process in regard to wages. [Arturo M. Giovannitti, quoted in report of the Sagamore Sociological Conference, June 1907]
In English, "malicious mischief" would appear to be the nearest explicit definition of "sabotage," which is so much more expressive as to be likely of adoption into all languages spoken by nations suffering from this new force in industry and morals. Sabotage has a flavor which is unmistakable even to persons knowing little slang and no French .... ["Century Magazine," November 1910]
来自柯林斯例句
来自柯林斯例句
来自柯林斯例句
来自《简明英汉词典》
来自《简明英汉词典》