英语词汇quicker than you can cook asparagus的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

quicker than you can cook asparagus. Some old-timers still call asparagus grass, from the homely expression sparrow-grass commonly used as a name for the vegetable over the last three centuries. Asparagus is a Latin word formed from the Greek for sprout or shoot. The Romans cultivated it as early as 200 b.c., growing some stalks at Ravenna that weighed a full three pounds and gathering stems in the Getulia plains of Africa that were actually 12 feet tall. The most flavorful “grass,” however, is thin and tender and should be cooked in as little water and as rapidly as possible. Even the Romans knew this, and their Em- peror Augustus originated the old saying, quicker than you can cook asparagus, for anything he wanted done within a few mo- ments. Asparagus has been regarded as a phallic symbol since earliest times, but this certainly isn’t why perennial patches of it are called beds, which is just a common garden term. There is an interesting true story about blanched white asparagus, how- ever. Reported a New York Times correspondent at a recent Bonn dinner party: “A certain guest complimented the elegant German hostess and said, ‘This white asparagus is as beautiful as an undressed woman,’ thereby probably becoming the first asparagus eater to have noted a resemblance between aspara- gus and the attributes of the female sex.”

词汇	quicker than you can cook asparagus
词源	quicker than you can cook asparagus. Some old-timers still call asparagus grass, from the homely expression sparrow-grass commonly used as a name for the vegetable over the last three centuries. Asparagus is a Latin word formed from the Greek for sprout or shoot. The Romans cultivated it as early as 200 b.c., growing some stalks at Ravenna that weighed a full three pounds and gathering stems in the Getulia plains of Africa that were actually 12 feet tall. The most flavorful “grass,” however, is thin and tender and should be cooked in as little water and as rapidly as possible. Even the Romans knew this, and their Em- peror Augustus originated the old saying, quicker than you can cook asparagus, for anything he wanted done within a few mo- ments. Asparagus has been regarded as a phallic symbol since earliest times, but this certainly isn’t why perennial patches of it are called beds, which is just a common garden term. There is an interesting true story about blanched white asparagus, how- ever. Reported a New York Times correspondent at a recent Bonn dinner party: “A certain guest complimented the elegant German hostess and said, ‘This white asparagus is as beautiful as an undressed woman,’ thereby probably becoming the first asparagus eater to have noted a resemblance between aspara- gus and the attributes of the female sex.”
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