| 词汇 | apple of one-s eye |
| 词源 | apple of one’s eye. That which one holds dearest, as in “You’re the apple of my eye.” The phrase is from the Bible (Deut. 32:10), which says the Lord kept Israel “as the apple of his eye.” Pupil- lam, or pupil, is actually the Latin for the “apple” of the phrase, but English translators of the Bible used “apple” because this was the early word for the pupil of the eye, which was thought to be a solid apple-shaped body. Because it is essential to sight, the eye’s apple, or pupil, is to be cherished and protected, and the apple of one’s eye came to mean anything extremely pre- cious. The literal translation of the Hebrew phrase, incidentally, is “You are as the little man in the eye” (one’s own reflection in the pupil of another’s eye). |
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