英语词汇ear to the ground的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ear to the ground. Rámon Adams wrote in Western Words (1944) that old plainsmen often placed a silk neckerchief on the ground and thus could hear the sounds of men and horses miles away. Even if plainsmen and American Indians didn’t hear distant hoofbeats by putting their ears to the ground, so many writers of Westerns have attributed this skill to them that the practice has become well known. The phrase is first recorded in 1900 in the Congressional Record, meaning to use caution, to go slowly and listen frequently. Since then someone with an ear to the ground has become someone try- ing to determine signs of the future, trying to find out what’s coming.

词汇	ear to the ground
词源	ear to the ground. Rámon Adams wrote in Western Words (1944) that old plainsmen often placed a silk neckerchief on the ground and thus could hear the sounds of men and horses miles away. Even if plainsmen and American Indians didn’t hear distant hoofbeats by putting their ears to the ground, so many writers of Westerns have attributed this skill to them that the practice has become well known. The phrase is first recorded in 1900 in the Congressional Record, meaning to use caution, to go slowly and listen frequently. Since then someone with an ear to the ground has become someone try- ing to determine signs of the future, trying to find out what’s coming.
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