英语词汇down in the dumps的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

down in the dumps; dump. Someone down in the dumps may momentarily feel ready to be hauled off to the garbage dump, but the dumps in the expression derives from the Dutch domp, “mental haze or dullness,” or from the German dumpf, “close, heavy, oppressive, gloomy.” The dump in garbage dump has an entirely different origin and is an old echoic word like bump and thump, common to many languages—from garbage being thrown down heavily and making this sound. Garbage dump gets its name from this, as does dumping stock on the market, or dumping (“accepting a bribe to lose”) a basketball game. In the 1811 edition of his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (edited and revised by someone else) Captain Francis Grose writes that down in the dumps is “jocularly said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt, who died of melan- choly.” Note that the key word here is “jocularly,” for despite reputed citations over the centuries, this is not the origin of the old expression.

词汇	down in the dumps
词源	down in the dumps; dump. Someone down in the dumps may momentarily feel ready to be hauled off to the garbage dump, but the dumps in the expression derives from the Dutch domp, “mental haze or dullness,” or from the German dumpf, “close, heavy, oppressive, gloomy.” The dump in garbage dump has an entirely different origin and is an old echoic word like bump and thump, common to many languages—from garbage being thrown down heavily and making this sound. Garbage dump gets its name from this, as does dumping stock on the market, or dumping (“accepting a bribe to lose”) a basketball game. In the 1811 edition of his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (edited and revised by someone else) Captain Francis Grose writes that down in the dumps is “jocularly said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt, who died of melan- choly.” Note that the key word here is “jocularly,” for despite reputed citations over the centuries, this is not the origin of the old expression.
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