英语词汇learn by heart的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

learn by heart. The ancient Greeks believed that the heart, the most noticeable internal organ, was the seat of intelligence and memory as well as emotion. This belief was passed on down the ages and became the basis for the English expression learn by heart, which is used by Chaucer (1374) and must have been proverbial long before that. “To record” reminds us again of this ancient belief in the heart as the seat of the mind. When writing wasn’t a simple act, things had to be memorized; thus we have the word record, formed from the Latin re, “again,” and cor, “heart,” which means exactly the same as to learn by heart. See bowels of compassion; lily-livered.

词汇	learn by heart
词源	learn by heart. The ancient Greeks believed that the heart, the most noticeable internal organ, was the seat of intelligence and memory as well as emotion. This belief was passed on down the ages and became the basis for the English expression learn by heart, which is used by Chaucer (1374) and must have been proverbial long before that. “To record” reminds us again of this ancient belief in the heart as the seat of the mind. When writing wasn’t a simple act, things had to be memorized; thus we have the word record, formed from the Latin re, “again,” and cor, “heart,” which means exactly the same as to learn by heart. See bowels of compassion; lily-livered.
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