英语词汇without rhyme or reason的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

without rhyme or reason. Francis Bacon wrote that Sir Tho- mas More, chancellor to Henry VIII, once told a friend who had versified a rather poor book he had written: “That’s better! It’s rhyme now, anyway. Before it was neither rhyme nor rea- son.” But More’s witty remark isn’t the basis for our expression meaning lacking in sense or any other justification, fit for nei- ther amusement nor instruction. Used in English since the early 16th century, the phrase is simply a translation of the medieval French saying, na rhyme ne raison.

词汇	without rhyme or reason
词源	without rhyme or reason. Francis Bacon wrote that Sir Tho- mas More, chancellor to Henry VIII, once told a friend who had versified a rather poor book he had written: “That’s better! It’s rhyme now, anyway. Before it was neither rhyme nor rea- son.” But More’s witty remark isn’t the basis for our expression meaning lacking in sense or any other justification, fit for nei- ther amusement nor instruction. Used in English since the early 16th century, the phrase is simply a translation of the medieval French saying, na rhyme ne raison.
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