英['sæbətɑːʒ]美['sæbətɑːʒ]
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一说起“木鞋”，人们也许马上会想到荷兰木鞋。其实，举世闻名的荷兰木鞋发源于法国，法国的布列塔尼地区是木鞋的发源地。在中世纪，只有贵族才有钱购买皮鞋，普通的老百姓买不起皮鞋，因此发明了造价便宜，但同样防潮保暖的木鞋。这种木鞋在法语中叫做sabot，其中的bot就是boot（靴子）的意思。木鞋从法国流传至欧洲各地，在荷兰大受欢迎，并成为了荷兰的特色产品之一。=现在在法国几乎看不到穿木鞋的人，但在中世纪时期，法国老百姓几乎人人都穿着木鞋。在资本主义发展初期阶段，当工人和工厂管理层发生矛盾时，往往会偷偷地把脚上的木鞋脱下来扔进机器里来破坏机器，从而衍生了sabotage这个英语单词，表示蓄意破坏。
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小知识
Sabotage isn't very nice: It's when you ruin or disrupt something by messing up a part of it on purpose. Loosening the blades on your competitor's ice skates would definitely be considered sabotage.
Sabotage comes from the French word saboter, which literally means “walk noisily.” That's funny, because the last thing you'd want to do when committing an act of sabotage is stomp around and get caught. It’s believed that sabotage came into use in 1910 as a noun, and then later in 1918 as a verb. Apparently, people only became so cruel in the last century or so.