英语词汇sandwich的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sandwich. At 5 a.m. on August 6, 1762, John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich, looked up from the gaming table and decided that he was hungry. The earl, an inveterate gambler in the midst of one of his famous round-the-clock sessions, didn’t dare leave his cards for a meal and ordered his man to bring him some cold, thick-sliced roast beef between two pieces of toasted bread. Thus the first sandwich was born. The Romans had a similar repast called offula before this, and it is said that the re- freshment was first invented when in about 100 b.c. Hillel ate bitter herb and unleavened bread as part of the Jewish Passover meal, symbolizing man’s triumph over life’s ills. But the modern sandwich, our convenient quick lunch or snack and an impor- tant source of nourishment in this frenetic age, definitely evolves from those mighty gambling sessions, some lasting 48 hours and more, in which the dissolute earl passionately partic- ipated. Gambling was one of John Montagu’s lesser vices, but the earl has as many words honoring him as any politician, an- other example being the beautiful Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) that Captain James Cook named after him because the earl headed the British admiralty during the American Revolution and outfitted the great explorer’s ship.

词汇	sandwich
词源	sandwich. At 5 a.m. on August 6, 1762, John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich, looked up from the gaming table and decided that he was hungry. The earl, an inveterate gambler in the midst of one of his famous round-the-clock sessions, didn’t dare leave his cards for a meal and ordered his man to bring him some cold, thick-sliced roast beef between two pieces of toasted bread. Thus the first sandwich was born. The Romans had a similar repast called offula before this, and it is said that the re- freshment was first invented when in about 100 b.c. Hillel ate bitter herb and unleavened bread as part of the Jewish Passover meal, symbolizing man’s triumph over life’s ills. But the modern sandwich, our convenient quick lunch or snack and an impor- tant source of nourishment in this frenetic age, definitely evolves from those mighty gambling sessions, some lasting 48 hours and more, in which the dissolute earl passionately partic- ipated. Gambling was one of John Montagu’s lesser vices, but the earl has as many words honoring him as any politician, an- other example being the beautiful Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) that Captain James Cook named after him because the earl headed the British admiralty during the American Revolution and outfitted the great explorer’s ship.
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