英语词汇dog-s life的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dog’s life; to go to the dogs; die like a dog; dirty dog. Dogs aren’t the prized, often pampered pets in other countries that they are in America. In the East they are often considered pariahs, scavengers of the streets, and the Chinese, Koreans, and Japa- nese, among other Asians, commonly eat them. Englishmen of earlier times used dogs primarily for hunting and kept them outside or in a rude shelter, not generally as house pets. The dogs were fed table scraps there wasn’t any further use for, and these they had to fight over. It didn’t seem ideal, a dog’s life, and Englishmen of the 16th century began to compare anyone who had become impoverished, who was going to utter ruin natu- rally or morally, to their maltreated canines. To lead a dog’s life was to be bothered every moment, never to be left in peace; to go to the dogs was to become just like the helpless animals; and to die like a dog was to come to a miserable, shameful end. There were many other similar phrases that arose before the dogs had their day in England and America, including throw it to the dogs, “to throw something away that’s worthless”; and of course a dirty dog, “a morally reprehensible or filthy person.”

词汇	dog-s life
词源	dog’s life; to go to the dogs; die like a dog; dirty dog. Dogs aren’t the prized, often pampered pets in other countries that they are in America. In the East they are often considered pariahs, scavengers of the streets, and the Chinese, Koreans, and Japa- nese, among other Asians, commonly eat them. Englishmen of earlier times used dogs primarily for hunting and kept them outside or in a rude shelter, not generally as house pets. The dogs were fed table scraps there wasn’t any further use for, and these they had to fight over. It didn’t seem ideal, a dog’s life, and Englishmen of the 16th century began to compare anyone who had become impoverished, who was going to utter ruin natu- rally or morally, to their maltreated canines. To lead a dog’s life was to be bothered every moment, never to be left in peace; to go to the dogs was to become just like the helpless animals; and to die like a dog was to come to a miserable, shameful end. There were many other similar phrases that arose before the dogs had their day in England and America, including throw it to the dogs, “to throw something away that’s worthless”; and of course a dirty dog, “a morally reprehensible or filthy person.”
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