英语词汇reason的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	reason
词源	reason [ME] The ultimate source of reason is Latin reri ‘to consider’, which is also the root of ration and associated words. Theirs not to reason why* comes from Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854). This describes a notorious incident in the Crimean War, when British cavalry unhesitatingly obeyed a suicidal order to ride straight at the Russian guns. See also rhyme.
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