英语词汇willow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

willow. The willow is a lovely tree with a lovely name full of l’s and w’s. As Ivor Brown wrote in A Word in Your Ear (1945): “The willow has ever been as much the poet’s joy as a symbol of mourning and melancholy. It both weeps and bewitches. ‘Sing, willow, willow, willow,’ Always it sings . . . so lovely is the tree, in all its forms, not least Salix babylonica, the weeping willow.” To wax prosaic, a few species of the Salix genus yield the drug salicin, used in making aspirin. Wearing a willow means to be in mourning, especially for a wife or sweetheart, the weeping willow from earliest times having been a symbol of sorrow. In the Book of Psalms the Jews in captivity are said to hang their harps on willow branches as a sign of mourning. Shakespeare’s famous song in Othello has the refrain “Sing willow, willow, willow”:

词汇	willow
词源	willow. The willow is a lovely tree with a lovely name full of l’s and w’s. As Ivor Brown wrote in A Word in Your Ear (1945): “The willow has ever been as much the poet’s joy as a symbol of mourning and melancholy. It both weeps and bewitches. ‘Sing, willow, willow, willow,’ Always it sings . . . so lovely is the tree, in all its forms, not least Salix babylonica, the weeping willow.” To wax prosaic, a few species of the Salix genus yield the drug salicin, used in making aspirin. Wearing a willow means to be in mourning, especially for a wife or sweetheart, the weeping willow from earliest times having been a symbol of sorrow. In the Book of Psalms the Jews in captivity are said to hang their harps on willow branches as a sign of mourning. Shakespeare’s famous song in Othello has the refrain “Sing willow, willow, willow”: The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur’d her moans; Sing willow, willow, willow Her salt tears fell from her and softened the stones; Sing willow, willow, willow. To wear the green willow means to be sad or disappointed in love.
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