| 释义 |
Pop, n.5
[Said to be so called from L. popina, or Eng. lollipop shop, ‘the rooms having been orig. in the house of Mrs. Hatton, who kept such a shop’.]
At Eton College, The name of a social club and debating society, founded in 1811.
1865Etoniana 207 (Farmer) The chief attraction of Pop lies in its being a sort of social club,..the members are strictly limited (originally twenty-two, since increased to twenty-eight). 1883J. B. Richards Seven Years at Eton xxxiii. 366 He [W. W. Wood] was one of the most fluent speakers at ‘Pop’. 1889H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Eton College 375 Pop has always had a great social power. 1902G. W. E. Russell in Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 733/2 He [Gladstone at Eton] was seen to the greatest advantage..in the debates of the Eton Society, learnedly called ‘The Literati’ and vulgarly ‘Pop’. |