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Mysteries of vernacular: Tuxedo.
通用俗语的谜团：Tuxedo。
Men's evening wear for semi-formal occasions.
Tuxedo指的就是男士在半正式场合时穿的晚礼服。
Tuxedo, surprisingly, has its roots in Native American history.
令人惊讶的是，Tuxedo的词根来源于美洲原住民的历史里。
The Delaware Indians of what is now the Northeast United States, were divided into three subgroups,
现今位于美国东北方的德拉瓦印第安人，被分为三个部族
distinguished by their animal totems: the turkey, the turtle, and the wolf.
可以用他们的动物图腾来区分：火鸡、海龟还有狼。
Members of the tribe belonging to the wolf totem were often referred to by the indigenous word for the four-footed canine, p'tuksit.
狼图腾的部族成员常被用他们语言中代表四脚犬科动物的字来称呼，也就是p'tuksit。
In the 18th century, Europeans who settled in the former region of the P'tuksit,
在十八世纪，当欧洲人踏入P'tuksit的领地时，
anglicized the name as "tuxedo" and slapped it on a town in southeast New York.
他们将这个名称成英文化，变成了tuxedo，然后传到了纽约东南方的一个小镇。
Decades later, in the late 1800s, a lavish resort was constructed and christened "The Tuxedo Club".
数十年后，在1800年代末期，一座华丽的俱乐部建了起来，并且被命名为The Tuxedo Club。
It was at The Tuxedo Club, around the turn of the century,
大约在十八世纪末十九世纪初，就是在The Tuxedo Club，
when a dress jacket was required for almost every occasion,
那时几乎每个场合都须要穿长尾礼服，
that a brash young man, heir to an enormous tobacco fortune,
但一位性急的、继承了一比可观的烟草产业的年轻人，
caused a stir by flaunting tradition and donning a formal dinner jacket without tails.
并且反传统地穿上了没有长尾的晚礼服，因此造成了骚动。
His bold fashion statement was quickly popularized and nicknamed tuxedo,
他的这一大胆的时尚宣言，很快便流行开来，并被称为tuxedo
which in modern America, is the headache of high school prom attendees across the nation.
而在现代美国，这是让全国各地高中毕业舞会参与者们头痛的事儿。
