英语词汇adam-s profession的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Adam’s profession. “There is a no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam’s profession,” Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet. The bard also said “And Adam was a gardener” in Henry VI, Part III. Much later, Kipling wrote: “Oh Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees/That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees.” The phrase Adam’s profession was proverbial for gar- dening long before both poets lived. No one has called it “Eve’s profession,” even though she picked the first apple. See alsofiacre.

词汇	adam-s profession
词源	Adam’s profession. “There is a no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam’s profession,” Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet. The bard also said “And Adam was a gardener” in Henry VI, Part III. Much later, Kipling wrote: “Oh Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees/That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees.” The phrase Adam’s profession was proverbial for gar- dening long before both poets lived. No one has called it “Eve’s profession,” even though she picked the first apple. See alsofiacre.
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