英语词汇limb的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

limb. In the early 19th century “leg” was considered an in- delicate word in America and limb (from the Anglo-Saxon lim, meaning the same) served as a euphemism for it. English nov- elist Captain Frederick Marryat described a visit to a young la- dies’ seminary in 1837: “On being ushered into the reception room, conceive my astonishment at beholding a square piano- forte with four limbs. However, that the ladies who visited their daughters might feel in its full force the extreme delicacy of the mistress of the establishment, and her care to preserve in their utmost purity the ideas of the young ladies under her charge, she had dressed all these four limbs in modest little trousers with frills at the bottom of them!”

词汇	limb
词源	limb. In the early 19th century “leg” was considered an in- delicate word in America and limb (from the Anglo-Saxon lim, meaning the same) served as a euphemism for it. English nov- elist Captain Frederick Marryat described a visit to a young la- dies’ seminary in 1837: “On being ushered into the reception room, conceive my astonishment at beholding a square piano- forte with four limbs. However, that the ladies who visited their daughters might feel in its full force the extreme delicacy of the mistress of the establishment, and her care to preserve in their utmost purity the ideas of the young ladies under her charge, she had dressed all these four limbs in modest little trousers with frills at the bottom of them!”
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