英语词汇a pox on you的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

a pox on you. Smallpox has been wiped out in the world today thanks to universal vaccination with cowpox virus, a method introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. But in days past the contagious disease killed thousands every year. Pox is an altered spelling of pocks, eruptive pustules on the skin that characterize smallpox and other less serious diseases such as chicken pox. A pox on you! was often a serious oath in the past, but the expression seems always to have been used hu- morously, too, as it is today. Shakespeare first recorded it as an exclamation of irritation or impatience in All’s Well That Ends Well (1601): “A pox on him, he’s a Cat [a spiteful backbiter] still.”

词汇	a pox on you
词源	a pox on you. Smallpox has been wiped out in the world today thanks to universal vaccination with cowpox virus, a method introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. But in days past the contagious disease killed thousands every year. Pox is an altered spelling of pocks, eruptive pustules on the skin that characterize smallpox and other less serious diseases such as chicken pox. A pox on you! was often a serious oath in the past, but the expression seems always to have been used hu- morously, too, as it is today. Shakespeare first recorded it as an exclamation of irritation or impatience in All’s Well That Ends Well (1601): “A pox on him, he’s a Cat [a spiteful backbiter] still.”
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