1690s, hossen gossen, said to have been British soldiers' mangled Englishing of the Arabic cry they heard at Muharram processions in India, Ya Hasan! Ya Husayn! ("O Hassan! O Husain!"), mourning two grandsons of the Prophet who died fighting for the faith. Title of Yule & Burnell's 1886 glossary of Anglo-Indian words, and taken by linguists in naming the law of Hobson-Jobson, describing the effort to bring a new and strange word into harmony with the language.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Mister Hobson owned a stable of horses in Cambridge, England.
Hobson先生在英格蘭劍橋有一個(gè)馬棚.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
2. In view of the fact that Hobson was not a trained economist his achievements were remarkable.
考慮到霍布森不是科班出身的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家，他可謂是成就非凡。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. They must take this . It is Hobson's choice.
他們只能要這一個(gè), 沒(méi)有選擇的余地.
來(lái)自辭典例句
4. The first systematic critique of modern imperialism was provided by the English radical J. A. Hobson.
第一次給予現(xiàn)代帝國(guó)主義以系統(tǒng)批判的是英國(guó)的激進(jìn)分子J. A. 霍布森.
來(lái)自辭典例句
5. Do you think Mr. Hobson can see me next Friday?