英语词汇when you call me that smile的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

when you call me that, smile! A famous now-national ex- pression often heard as Smile when you call me that (or say that). It has its origins in one of the most famous scenes in American literature, in Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902), whose eponymous cowboy hero became the basis for Ameri- can heroes like John Wayne. When called a “son-of-a———” by the saddlebum Trampas, “the Virginian’s pistol came out, and his hand lay on the table, holding it unaimed. And with a voice as gentle as ever, the voice that sounded almost like a caress, but drawling a little more than usual, so that there was almost a space between each word, he issued his orders to the man Trampas: ‘When you call me that, smile!’ And he looked at Trampas across the table. Yes the voice was gentle. But in my ears it seemed as if somewhere the bell of death was ringing.” Trampas, of course, backs down, “failing to draw his steel.”

词汇	when you call me that smile
词源	when you call me that, smile! A famous now-national ex- pression often heard as Smile when you call me that (or say that). It has its origins in one of the most famous scenes in American literature, in Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902), whose eponymous cowboy hero became the basis for Ameri- can heroes like John Wayne. When called a “son-of-a———” by the saddlebum Trampas, “the Virginian’s pistol came out, and his hand lay on the table, holding it unaimed. And with a voice as gentle as ever, the voice that sounded almost like a caress, but drawling a little more than usual, so that there was almost a space between each word, he issued his orders to the man Trampas: ‘When you call me that, smile!’ And he looked at Trampas across the table. Yes the voice was gentle. But in my ears it seemed as if somewhere the bell of death was ringing.” Trampas, of course, backs down, “failing to draw his steel.”
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