英语词汇ring hollow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ring hollow; ring true. In the past, counterfeit coins could be detected by the dull, flat tone they produced when dropped on stone, in contrast to the clear ring of true coins. The test was called ringing or sounding a coin, a very old method that one writer dismissed as unreliable in 1796. Nevertheless, the prac- tice was so common that it inspired the saying to ring true, to impress one as being genuine or good, as well as its opposite, to ring false or to ring hollow, the last a phrase that Ben Jonson used. Today real post-1963 U.S. “silver” coins don’t give off a clear ring anymore.

词汇	ring hollow
词源	ring hollow; ring true. In the past, counterfeit coins could be detected by the dull, flat tone they produced when dropped on stone, in contrast to the clear ring of true coins. The test was called ringing or sounding a coin, a very old method that one writer dismissed as unreliable in 1796. Nevertheless, the prac- tice was so common that it inspired the saying to ring true, to impress one as being genuine or good, as well as its opposite, to ring false or to ring hollow, the last a phrase that Ben Jonson used. Today real post-1963 U.S. “silver” coins don’t give off a clear ring anymore.
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