英语词汇cricket的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cricket; it’s not cricket. In 1622 villagers in Boxgrove, En- gland, near the cathedral city of Chichester, were prosecuted for playing the game of cricket on a Sunday, and replied that “It’s not cricket!” This is reportedly the first use of the expres- sion and, clearly, if these villagers did say it, they were just trying to get out of paying a fine. In any case, over the years, perhaps after the villagers paid their fine, the phrase it’s not cricket came to mean it’s unfair, it’s “not playing the game.” I can find no proof of the story except in the one source that gives it and the earliest I can trace the expression to is 1900, though it is fore- shadowed in 1867. Cricket itself is of unknown origin, possibly coming from the Old English cric, “a staff,” for the bat used in the game. John Gunther in Inside Europe (1943) writes of the British national game of cricket “and the ritualistic attitude to fair play that it has proclaimed.”

词汇	cricket
词源	cricket; it’s not cricket. In 1622 villagers in Boxgrove, En- gland, near the cathedral city of Chichester, were prosecuted for playing the game of cricket on a Sunday, and replied that “It’s not cricket!” This is reportedly the first use of the expres- sion and, clearly, if these villagers did say it, they were just trying to get out of paying a fine. In any case, over the years, perhaps after the villagers paid their fine, the phrase it’s not cricket came to mean it’s unfair, it’s “not playing the game.” I can find no proof of the story except in the one source that gives it and the earliest I can trace the expression to is 1900, though it is fore- shadowed in 1867. Cricket itself is of unknown origin, possibly coming from the Old English cric, “a staff,” for the bat used in the game. John Gunther in Inside Europe (1943) writes of the British national game of cricket “and the ritualistic attitude to fair play that it has proclaimed.”
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