yeoman

英 [ˈjəʊ.mən]      美 [ˈjoʊ.mən]
  • n. 自耕农;自由民;仆人
  • n. (Yeoman)人名;(英)约曼
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1. 谐音“野蛮”----野蛮人,对乡下人的蔑称。
yeoman 自耕农

原义为贵族家庭的侍者,可能缩写自古英语iunge man,即young man,后用于指自耕农。

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.
决定国家政策的不是贵族,而是自由民.
2. Byron was led by a yeoman into the presence of the Commander - in - chief of the Asiatic Fleet.
拜伦被一个文书军士领去见亚洲舰队司令.
3. Her uncle spend two years on a warship as a yeoman.
她舅舅在军舰上当了两年文书军士.
4. The medicine you gave me has done me Yeoman's service.
你给我的药大起作用.
5. A yeoman farmer model of price setting under monopolistic competition.
垄断竞争中自耕农定价模式.

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