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一个老美朋友的近80岁的父亲上了五月三日的报纸 “The Union Democrat”，第一版。
记者采访他时，他说：“I'm a jack of all trades and master of none."
经几个老美七嘴八舌的解释，方知是：我什么都会，但没一样是精的。
查了书，对 jack of all trades 的定义是：
A person who is good at everything. This term dates from 1600 or before. An early appearance in print is in Geffray Mynshul's Essays and Characters of a Prison(1618).
Further, it was pointed out even earlier that someone good at everything is not outstanding at anything.
This observation occrus in an ancient Roman proverb, but only much later was put as ' jack of all trades, master of none ' by Maria Edgeworth(Popular Tales: Will, 1800).
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