● Chao Hua Xi Shi "Explanation of Words in Speaking" (I)
Why do "penguins" and "enterprises" have a "enterprise" word?
Penguin is a common name for all species in the ornithischian family and penguin family.
Enterprises, in the Modern Chinese Dictionary, are explained as: departments engaged in production, transportation, trade and other economic activities, such as factories, mines, railways, companies, etc.
One is an animal term, the other is an economic term, why do they have a "enterprise" word?
Enterprise, will mean the word, from the "person" under the meaning of "stop" (toe), will raise the heel (that is, the heel). "Sayonara": "Enterprise, lift the heel also." The so-called "heel lifting" is to tiptoe up the heel. The heel must be stooped, in the shape of looking forward, so there is the meaning of hope and expectation.
In 1488 Portuguese sailors first spotted penguins near the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa. But the first to record penguins was the historian Pigafita. He encountered a large herd of penguins on the coast of Patagonia in 1520 on a Magallan fleet, which they called unknown geese at the time. Because the penguin is obese, it is named the obese bird, that is, "penguin".
The penguin's Chinese name is derived from its standing posture. Because it is a seabird that adapts to marine life and does not fly, when swimming in the water, the two hind limb positions are more advantageous, so that the center of gravity of its body moves backwards. On land, it must stand like a human being, so that the center of gravity of the body can be maintained on both feet to stand firmly. When it stands on the seashore or on the snow, it always seems to be looking forward to something, so it is named penguin.
The word "enterprise" comes from the Japanese word "enterprise" (can not be abbreviated), is the Japanese translation of Western economics and created the word, of course, the traceability is also a Chinese translation, because the English "enterprise" of the enterprise actually comes from "entrepreneur", that is, the entrepreneur, and the original meaning of the Chinese "enterprise" is "tiptoeing" to stand, extended to the meaning of "hope, hope, enterprise", "industry" for the cause, so the Japanese translation of "enterprise" is still very in line with the meaning, that is "Hope for career success". Later, when we learned from Japan, we directly moved the Chinese word "enterprise", which is the origin of the current word enterprise.