英语词汇run amok or amuck的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

run amok (or amuck). In 1516 an Englishman translated an Italian work that said of the Javanese, “There are some of them [under the influence of opium] who . . . go out into the streets and kill as many people as they meet. . . . These are called Amu- co.” Within a century, to run amok was common in English for “running viciously mad and frenzied for blood.” The word amok comes ultimately from the Malay amoq, meaning attack- ing desperately, or murdering in a state of frenzy, and was origi- nally applied to an animal in a state of rage.

According to a newspaper of the day, running a Mick dur- ing the Civil War was to get a needy Irishman drunk, induce him to enlist for two or three hundred dollars, and obtain five times the sum from citizens desirous of procuring a substitute.

词汇	run amok or amuck
词源	run amok (or amuck). In 1516 an Englishman translated an Italian work that said of the Javanese, “There are some of them [under the influence of opium] who . . . go out into the streets and kill as many people as they meet. . . . These are called Amu- co.” Within a century, to run amok was common in English for “running viciously mad and frenzied for blood.” The word amok comes ultimately from the Malay amoq, meaning attack- ing desperately, or murdering in a state of frenzy, and was origi- nally applied to an animal in a state of rage. According to a newspaper of the day, running a Mick dur- ing the Civil War was to get a needy Irishman drunk, induce him to enlist for two or three hundred dollars, and obtain five times the sum from citizens desirous of procuring a substitute.
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