英语词汇killed with by kindness的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

killed with (by) kindness. Shakespeare recorded this ex- pression first in The Taming of the Shrew (1596) and Thomas Heywood later wrote a play A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603). The words, meaning to destroy or harm by excessive kindness, may be much older. There is a story that the Atheni- an lawmaker Draco, a popular man despite the stern draco- nian laws he imposed, was literally killed with kindness. While he was sitting in the theater at Aegina in about 590 b.c., other spectators hailed him by throwing their cloaks and caps in tribute. So many landed on Draco that he smothered to death.

词汇	killed with by kindness
词源	killed with (by) kindness. Shakespeare recorded this ex- pression first in The Taming of the Shrew (1596) and Thomas Heywood later wrote a play A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603). The words, meaning to destroy or harm by excessive kindness, may be much older. There is a story that the Atheni- an lawmaker Draco, a popular man despite the stern draco- nian laws he imposed, was literally killed with kindness. While he was sitting in the theater at Aegina in about 590 b.c., other spectators hailed him by throwing their cloaks and caps in tribute. So many landed on Draco that he smothered to death.
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