你熟知这5个词 却不知道它们的历史之久

2. Email
2. 邮件
The term for messages sent via the Internet (or a system for sending these messages) comes from the late 1970s; it is the obsolete email meaning ‘enamel’ that is found as far back as 1594, from the (still current) French word émail, ‘enamel’.
这个词汇起源于二十世纪七十年代末，指通过网络发送出去的信息（或用来发送这些信息的系统）。而email之前还意为珐琅（enamel），人们发现它的这层含义最远能追溯到1594年，来源于现在仍在使用的法语单词émail（英文单词为enamel）。

3. Punk
3. 朋克
The word punk first entered the mainstream thanks to the punk rock music scene in the 1970s. Punk had already had a long and varied history, though. It is first found in the 16th century, designating a prostitute. After this, it had various different sexual connotations. Later still it was used of a coward, and an amateur, before being reclaimed and celebrated by rebellious 1970s music fans.
多亏了二十世纪七十年代的朋克音乐现场，punk一词第一次进入主流视野。然而它在那之前却已经有一段漫长曲折的历史。Punk最早出现于16世纪，意指妓女。在此之后，它曾意指许多不同的性暗示。在二十世纪七十年代的音乐迷抗议着要为punk重新定义、庆祝其新含义前，它仍被用来形容胆小者和业余爱好者。

4. Crib
4. 婴儿床
The earliest sense of crib is a ‘barred receptacle for fodder used in cowsheds’. More surprisingly, the informal use of crib, chiefly North American, to mean ‘a person’s apartment or house’ has a long heritage. Shakespeare himself used crib to mean ‘a small habitation’ or a confined space, in Henry IV, Part 2: ‘Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee and hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, than in the perfumed chambers of the great, under the canopies of costly state, And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody?’.
Crib最早指牛棚里装饲料的木制容器。而更出人意料的是，crib主要在北美的非正式用法（取公寓或房子之意）由来已久。莎翁自己就在《亨利四世》的第二部分用crib指代小住处/密闭的空间——“为什么睡眠，你宁愿栖身在烟熏的茅屋里，在不舒适的草荐上伸展你的肢体，让嗡嗡作声的蚊虫催着你入梦，却不愿偃息在烟雾氤氲的王侯的深宫之中，在华贵的宝帐之下，让最甜美的乐声把你陶醉？”

5. Hobbit
5. 霍比特人
Earlier than The Hobbit (1937), hobbit (or hobbet) – albeit with an entirely different etymology – was used to mean ‘a seed-basket’ or a local measure meaning two of something; these uses date as far back as 1863, according to OED research.
尽管词源迥异，Hobbit/ hobbet在1937年小说《霍比特人》出版前指种子盆栽或是当地用来指代一些事物中某两个的方法。据牛津英语字典的调查显示，这些用法最早能追溯到1863年。