英语词汇run the gamut of emotions from a to b的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

run the gamut of emotions from A to B. Sometimes said of unaccomplished actors and actresses, this expression has its or- igin in a witticism of American author Dorothy Parker. “Kate’s wonderful, isn’t she?” a friend said of Katharine Hepburn’s Broadway performance in The Lake, between acts at the Martin Beck Theater. “Oh, yes,” Miss Parker agreed. “She runs the gamut of emotions all the way from A to B.” These words be- came as celebrated as any of her ripostes, but years later Miss Parker told Garson Kanin that she didn’t think there was a finer actress anywhere than Katharine Hepburn; she had made the remark for the same reason she said many things—because it was funny, a joke. Miss Hepburn, however, agreed with her as- sessment of The Lake.

词汇	run the gamut of emotions from a to b
词源	run the gamut of emotions from A to B. Sometimes said of unaccomplished actors and actresses, this expression has its or- igin in a witticism of American author Dorothy Parker. “Kate’s wonderful, isn’t she?” a friend said of Katharine Hepburn’s Broadway performance in The Lake, between acts at the Martin Beck Theater. “Oh, yes,” Miss Parker agreed. “She runs the gamut of emotions all the way from A to B.” These words be- came as celebrated as any of her ripostes, but years later Miss Parker told Garson Kanin that she didn’t think there was a finer actress anywhere than Katharine Hepburn; she had made the remark for the same reason she said many things—because it was funny, a joke. Miss Hepburn, however, agreed with her as- sessment of The Lake.
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