英语词汇warm the cockles of one-s heart的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

warm the cockles of one’s heart. The most popular explana- tion for the cockles here says that late-17th-century anatomists noticed the resemblance of the shape of cockleshells, the valves of a scallop-like mollusk, to the ventricles of the heart and re- ferred to the latter as cockles. Whether this is the case or not, cockles isn’t used much anymore except in the expression to warm the cockles of one’s heart, “to please someone immensely, to evoke a flow of pleasure or a feeling of affection.” Behind the expression is the old poetical belief that the heart is the seat of affection.

词汇	warm the cockles of one-s heart
词源	warm the cockles of one’s heart. The most popular explana- tion for the cockles here says that late-17th-century anatomists noticed the resemblance of the shape of cockleshells, the valves of a scallop-like mollusk, to the ventricles of the heart and re- ferred to the latter as cockles. Whether this is the case or not, cockles isn’t used much anymore except in the expression to warm the cockles of one’s heart, “to please someone immensely, to evoke a flow of pleasure or a feeling of affection.” Behind the expression is the old poetical belief that the heart is the seat of affection.
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