来自希腊语pamphilos,众人所爱，来自pan-,众，所，philos,爱，词源同philosophy.现词义来自中世纪的一首爱情诗”Pamphilus,seu de Amore”，大意是“众人之所爱，何为爱”，amore,爱，爱情，词源同amateur.因这首诗流传如此之广，人们用小纸片大量传抄。后引申词义小册子，传单。
英文词源
pamphlet
pamphlet: [14] The original ‘pamphlet’ was Pamphilus, a short anonymous Latin love poem of the 12th century. It was very popular and widely reproduced, and its name was adapted in the vernacular to Pamflet; and by the end of the 14th century this was being used generically for any text shorter than a book. The word’s more restricted modern connotations (‘unbound’ and ‘dealing with controversial subjects’) developed gradually over the centuries.
pamphlet (n.)
"small, unbound treatise," late 14c., from Anglo-Latin panfletus, popular short form of "Pamphilus, seu de Amore" ("Pamphilus, or about Love"), a short 12c. Latin love poem popular and widely copied in Middle Ages; the name from Greek pamphilos "loved by all," from pan- "all" + philos "loving, dear" see -phile). Meaning "brief work dealing with questions of current interest" is late 16c.
双语例句
1. Over a thousand copies of the pamphlet have now been given out.
现在已分发了一千多本小册子.
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2. The scholarly monographs were published as pamphlet.
学术专著是以小册子形式出版的.
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3. The pamphlet went out in 6000 copies.
这本小册子发行了六千本.
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4. The pamphlet contains information of political opinion.
这本小册子含有关于政治主张的资料。
来自辞典例句
5. Franklin wrote a pamphlet on the " NewInvented Pennsylvanian Fire Place ".