英语词汇quaker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Quaker. The religious Quaker group was founded by George Fox in 1650 as the Society of Friends, but readily accepted the name Quakers, derisively bestowed upon them because they bade people to “quake and tremble at the word of the Lord.” George Fox claimed that he had spoken these words when be- ing arraigned before Justice Bennet of Derby in 1650 and that the judge sneeringly called him a quaker, but there are earlier references to the term. In one London letter dated October 14, 1647, for example, the writer observes, “I hear of a secte of woemen (they are at Southworke) come from beyond sea, called Quakers, and these swell, shiver and shake. . . .” It could well be, then, that the name derives from the trembling of Friends under the stress of religious emotion, which once caused them to “quake, and howl, and foam with their mouths.” Despite intense persecution, the beliefs of the Quakers persist- ed and spread throughout England and America. The Quakers, incidentally, forsook the use of you because it was at the time the second-person pronoun employed when addressing supe- riors. The thou they chose in preference to you was used in the 17th century to address familiars or inferiors, affirming to them the equality of mankind.

词汇	quaker
词源	Quaker. The religious Quaker group was founded by George Fox in 1650 as the Society of Friends, but readily accepted the name Quakers, derisively bestowed upon them because they bade people to “quake and tremble at the word of the Lord.” George Fox claimed that he had spoken these words when be- ing arraigned before Justice Bennet of Derby in 1650 and that the judge sneeringly called him a quaker, but there are earlier references to the term. In one London letter dated October 14, 1647, for example, the writer observes, “I hear of a secte of woemen (they are at Southworke) come from beyond sea, called Quakers, and these swell, shiver and shake. . . .” It could well be, then, that the name derives from the trembling of Friends under the stress of religious emotion, which once caused them to “quake, and howl, and foam with their mouths.” Despite intense persecution, the beliefs of the Quakers persist- ed and spread throughout England and America. The Quakers, incidentally, forsook the use of you because it was at the time the second-person pronoun employed when addressing supe- riors. The thou they chose in preference to you was used in the 17th century to address familiars or inferiors, affirming to them the equality of mankind.
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