维基百科解释

• bootstrap (复数 bootstraps)

1. A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
2. (figuratively) A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
   He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.
3. (computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
4. (computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
5. (statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.

• 历史原因，bootstrapping用于在18世纪19世纪，通过自己的鞋带把自己拉起来，后来用于形容没有别人的帮助，由于自己的努力工作。尽管困难重重，还是自力更生。
  History. The term “bootstrapping” originated with a phrase in use in the 18th and 19th century: “to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

历史

| https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pull_oneself_up_by_one's_bootstraps
19世纪早期的美国；1834年证实。在最初的用法中，通常用于指将自己拉过围栏，并暗示有人正在尝试或声称完成一些荒谬的牵强或不可能完成的任务。大概是一个传统故事的变体，如下所述。向可能的任务的意义转变似乎在20世纪初发展起来，这个短语的意思是“一项荒唐的任务”一直持续到20世纪20年代

计算机

在计算机领域，表示通过一些方法和措施来完成启动过程。