yeoman

英 ['j??m?n] 美['jom?n]

TEM8暢通詞匯

復數:?yeomen;

1. 諧音“野蠻”----野蠻人，對鄉下人的蔑稱。

yeoman 自耕農

原義為貴族家庭的侍者，可能縮寫自古英語iunge man,即young man,后用于指自耕農。

yeoman: yeoman: [14] Etymologically, a yeoman is probably simply a ‘young man’; indeed originally the word denoted a ‘junior household servant’, between a squire and a page in rank. It started life as yongman, a compound of Middle English yong ‘young’ and man, and was gradually eroded to yeoman. The modern sense ‘freeholding farmer’, and its metaphorical extensions, emerged in the 15th century.
=> man, young
yeoman (n.): c. 1300, "attendant in a noble household," of unknown origin, perhaps a contraction of Old English iunge man "young man," or from an unrecorded Old English *geaman, equivalent of Old Frisian gaman "villager," from Old English -gea "district, region, village," cognate with Old Frisian ga, ge, German Gau, Gothic gawi, from Proto-Germanic *gaujan.

Sense of "commoner who cultivates his land" is recorded from early 15c.; also the third order of fighting men (late 14c., below knights and squires, above knaves), hence yeomen's service "good, efficient service" (c. 1600). Meaning "naval petty officer in charge of supplies" is first attested 1660s. Yeowoman first recorded 1852: "Then I am yeo-woman O the clumsy word!" [Tennyson, "The Foresters"]

1. It was not the aristocrat but the yeoman who determined the nation's policies.: 決定國家政策的不是貴族,而是自由民.

2. Byron was led by a yeoman into the presence of the Commander - in - chief of the Asiatic Fleet.: 拜倫被一個文書軍士領去見亞洲艦隊司令.

5. A yeoman farmer model of price setting under monopolistic competition.: 壟斷競爭中自耕農定價模式.