英语词汇davy jones-s locker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Davy Jones’s locker. Since at least 1750 gone to Davy Jones’s locker has been used by sailors to indicate death, especially death by drowning, but no one has yet fathomed the origins of the phrase. In The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) Tobias Smollett wrote: “I’ll be damned if it was not Davy Jones him- self. I know him by his saucer eyes, his three rows of teeth and tail, and the blue smoke that came out of his nostrils.” This same Davy Jones, according to mythology of sailors is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks, and other disasters to which seafar- ing life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. The original Davy Jones may have been the 16th-century owner of an English pub, commemorated in the ballad “Jones Ale is Newe,” who stored his ale in a mysterious locker for some reason much feared by seamen. Or Jones could be a corruption of Jonah, the unlucky biblical character swallowed by a whale, and Davy the Anglicization of the West Indian word duppy, meaning “a malevolent ghost or devil.” A third, more plausible explanation proposes the Jonah above for Jones, but derives Davy from St. David, the partron saint of Wales often invoked by Welsh sailors. Jonah was indeed considered bad luck to the sailors aboard the vessel on which he was attempting to flee God’s wrath and the phrase was first recorded in Captain Fran- cis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) as David Jones’ Locker, which lends still more support to the Welsh patron saint theory. The locker in the phrase probably refers to an ordinary seaman’s chest, not the old pub owner’s mysterious locker.

词汇	davy jones-s locker
词源	Davy Jones’s locker. Since at least 1750 gone to Davy Jones’s locker has been used by sailors to indicate death, especially death by drowning, but no one has yet fathomed the origins of the phrase. In The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) Tobias Smollett wrote: “I’ll be damned if it was not Davy Jones him- self. I know him by his saucer eyes, his three rows of teeth and tail, and the blue smoke that came out of his nostrils.” This same Davy Jones, according to mythology of sailors is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks, and other disasters to which seafar- ing life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. The original Davy Jones may have been the 16th-century owner of an English pub, commemorated in the ballad “Jones Ale is Newe,” who stored his ale in a mysterious locker for some reason much feared by seamen. Or Jones could be a corruption of Jonah, the unlucky biblical character swallowed by a whale, and Davy the Anglicization of the West Indian word duppy, meaning “a malevolent ghost or devil.” A third, more plausible explanation proposes the Jonah above for Jones, but derives Davy from St. David, the partron saint of Wales often invoked by Welsh sailors. Jonah was indeed considered bad luck to the sailors aboard the vessel on which he was attempting to flee God’s wrath and the phrase was first recorded in Captain Fran- cis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) as David Jones’ Locker, which lends still more support to the Welsh patron saint theory. The locker in the phrase probably refers to an ordinary seaman’s chest, not the old pub owner’s mysterious locker.
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