英语词汇daisy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

daisy; fresh as a daisy; up-see-daisy. Daisy still sounds like the Old English word for the flower, “day’s eye,” or “eye of the day.” Bellis perennis was so named in allusion to its appearance and because it closes its ray in the evening to conceal the flow- er’s yellow disk, and opens it again in the morning. Fresh as a daisy is first recorded in Captain Frederick Marryat’s Peter Sim- ple (1833), but there is no telling if he coined the phrase. The daisy takes its scientific name Bellis from a Roman legend about Belides, one of the Dryads. Vortumnus, the god of orchards, beheld and admired Belides dancing in the fields and pursued her. Wishing to escape him, she was changed into the little flower called bellis by the Romans. Up-see-daisy, a variation on the earlier up-a-daisy, is a playful term said when lifting a small child up into the air, often by the arms. The “daisy” could refer to the little child, pretty or delicate as a flower plucked from the earth, although the Oxford English Dictionary prosaically sug- gests that the word is patterned on “lack-a-daisy” and “lack- a-day.” In any case, the term is first recorded in Jonathan Swift’s Journal to Stella (1721): “Come stand away, let me rise . . . So- up-a-dazy.” Other variations include “oop-a-daisy,” “up-see- day,” “up-see-daddy” and “up-a-deedies.”

词汇	daisy
词源	daisy; fresh as a daisy; up-see-daisy. Daisy still sounds like the Old English word for the flower, “day’s eye,” or “eye of the day.” Bellis perennis was so named in allusion to its appearance and because it closes its ray in the evening to conceal the flow- er’s yellow disk, and opens it again in the morning. Fresh as a daisy is first recorded in Captain Frederick Marryat’s Peter Sim- ple (1833), but there is no telling if he coined the phrase. The daisy takes its scientific name Bellis from a Roman legend about Belides, one of the Dryads. Vortumnus, the god of orchards, beheld and admired Belides dancing in the fields and pursued her. Wishing to escape him, she was changed into the little flower called bellis by the Romans. Up-see-daisy, a variation on the earlier up-a-daisy, is a playful term said when lifting a small child up into the air, often by the arms. The “daisy” could refer to the little child, pretty or delicate as a flower plucked from the earth, although the Oxford English Dictionary prosaically sug- gests that the word is patterned on “lack-a-daisy” and “lack- a-day.” In any case, the term is first recorded in Jonathan Swift’s Journal to Stella (1721): “Come stand away, let me rise . . . So- up-a-dazy.” Other variations include “oop-a-daisy,” “up-see- day,” “up-see-daddy” and “up-a-deedies.”
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