| 词汇 | lo |
| 词源 | lo. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed. The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud sciences never taught to stray. For as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv’n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav’n. Alexander Pope’s well-known words Lo, the poor Indian in the above lines from his Essay on Criticism (1711) inspired the term Lo, for an American Indian. The word isn’t recorded in this sense until 1871, but must be considerably older. “Is it no longer a matter of astonishment,” someone wrote in 1873, “that the Lo’s are passing so rapidly from the face of the earth?” |
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