英语词汇ships that pass in the night的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ships that pass in the night. People who meet by chance and aren’t likely to meet again are sometimes compared to ships that pass in the night. The expression dates back to the 19th century and seems to have originated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863): “Ships that pass in the night, and speak to each other in passing . . .” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn (1865, 1872, 1874) is a series of narrative poems. The setting is a real inn in Sudbury, near Boston, and the characters telling the stories are all based on Longfellow’s friends.

词汇	ships that pass in the night
词源	ships that pass in the night. People who meet by chance and aren’t likely to meet again are sometimes compared to ships that pass in the night. The expression dates back to the 19th century and seems to have originated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863): “Ships that pass in the night, and speak to each other in passing . . .” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn (1865, 1872, 1874) is a series of narrative poems. The setting is a real inn in Sudbury, near Boston, and the characters telling the stories are all based on Longfellow’s friends.
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