英语词汇maudlin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

maudlin. Christ exorcised Mary Magdalene of evil spirits, and Magdalene has become a synonym for a reformed prosti- tute. However, in classical paintings and old folk plays, based on the Bible stories relating to her, Mary was often shown with eyes red and swollen, disheveled and weeping endlessly for her sins. Her name—pronounced maudlin, just as Oxford’s Magdalene College is pronounced today—was applied by the British, with their mistrust of easy emotion, to the excessive, tearful sentimentality that is often associated with drunken- ness. In fact, the fifth stage of drunkenness in Thomas Nashe’s analysis of intoxication presents us with the “maudlin drunk,” and maudle, “to talk in a drunken way,” comes from this use of the word. But it should be added that biblical scholars cannot agree on the identity of Mary Magdalene. The Mary of Magdala who was the first witness to the Resurrection may not have been the Mary who washed Christ’s feet with her tears, wiped them with “the hairs of her head,” and whom Christ forgave be- cause “she loved much.” Legend, however, combines the three Marys figuring in Christ’s ministry into one.

词汇	maudlin
词源	maudlin. Christ exorcised Mary Magdalene of evil spirits, and Magdalene has become a synonym for a reformed prosti- tute. However, in classical paintings and old folk plays, based on the Bible stories relating to her, Mary was often shown with eyes red and swollen, disheveled and weeping endlessly for her sins. Her name—pronounced maudlin, just as Oxford’s Magdalene College is pronounced today—was applied by the British, with their mistrust of easy emotion, to the excessive, tearful sentimentality that is often associated with drunken- ness. In fact, the fifth stage of drunkenness in Thomas Nashe’s analysis of intoxication presents us with the “maudlin drunk,” and maudle, “to talk in a drunken way,” comes from this use of the word. But it should be added that biblical scholars cannot agree on the identity of Mary Magdalene. The Mary of Magdala who was the first witness to the Resurrection may not have been the Mary who washed Christ’s feet with her tears, wiped them with “the hairs of her head,” and whom Christ forgave be- cause “she loved much.” Legend, however, combines the three Marys figuring in Christ’s ministry into one.
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