英语词汇love apples的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

love apples. Why tomatoes were dubbed “love apples” is a matter of some dispute. First cultivated by the Mayans and called the xtomatl, the tomato was named the pomi del peru and mala peruviane when Cortés brought it to Europe from America. That tomatoes hailed from exotic climes and were a scarlet, shapely fruit undoubtedly helped, but the designation love apple owes just as much to semantics as sexuality. All Spaniards at the time were called Moors, and one story has it that an Italian gentleman told a visiting Frenchman that the to- matoes he had been served were Pomi dei Moro (“Moor’s ap- ples”), which to his guest sounded like pommes d’amour, or ap- ples of love. However, another version claims that “apples of love” derives in a similar roundabout way from the Italian pomo d’oro, “golden apple,” and a third tale confides that courtly Sir Walter Raleigh presented a tomato to Queen Elizabeth, coyly advising her that it was “an apple of love.” In any case, the to- mato quickly gained a reputation as a wicked aphrodisiac, and justly or not, it has held this distinction ever since. “These Ap- ples of Love . . . yield very little nourishment to the body and the same naught and corrupt,” the English traveler John Gerard wrote in his 16th-century gardening guide. In Germany the to- mato’s common name is still Liebesapfel, or “love apple,” and the expression hot tomato, for “a sexy woman,” is common to many languages.

词汇	love apples
词源	love apples. Why tomatoes were dubbed “love apples” is a matter of some dispute. First cultivated by the Mayans and called the xtomatl, the tomato was named the pomi del peru and mala peruviane when Cortés brought it to Europe from America. That tomatoes hailed from exotic climes and were a scarlet, shapely fruit undoubtedly helped, but the designation love apple owes just as much to semantics as sexuality. All Spaniards at the time were called Moors, and one story has it that an Italian gentleman told a visiting Frenchman that the to- matoes he had been served were Pomi dei Moro (“Moor’s ap- ples”), which to his guest sounded like pommes d’amour, or ap- ples of love. However, another version claims that “apples of love” derives in a similar roundabout way from the Italian pomo d’oro, “golden apple,” and a third tale confides that courtly Sir Walter Raleigh presented a tomato to Queen Elizabeth, coyly advising her that it was “an apple of love.” In any case, the to- mato quickly gained a reputation as a wicked aphrodisiac, and justly or not, it has held this distinction ever since. “These Ap- ples of Love . . . yield very little nourishment to the body and the same naught and corrupt,” the English traveler John Gerard wrote in his 16th-century gardening guide. In Germany the to- mato’s common name is still Liebesapfel, or “love apple,” and the expression hot tomato, for “a sexy woman,” is common to many languages.
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