英语词汇short shrift的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

short shrift. So many crimes were punishable by execution in Elizabethan times that condemned persons were often given only a few minutes for last rites on the crowded scaffold. Ro- man Catholic prisoners were allowed the sacrament of shriving, commonly called shrift, during which sins were confessed and absolution granted, but their callous executioners frequently permitted only a short version of the customary ceremony. This became known as to give short shrift, which from its literal sense has come to mean to cut short, to make quick work of, or to give very little attention to. Shriving and shrift derive from the Anglo-Saxon scrifan, “to make a confession.”

词汇	short shrift
词源	short shrift. So many crimes were punishable by execution in Elizabethan times that condemned persons were often given only a few minutes for last rites on the crowded scaffold. Ro- man Catholic prisoners were allowed the sacrament of shriving, commonly called shrift, during which sins were confessed and absolution granted, but their callous executioners frequently permitted only a short version of the customary ceremony. This became known as to give short shrift, which from its literal sense has come to mean to cut short, to make quick work of, or to give very little attention to. Shriving and shrift derive from the Anglo-Saxon scrifan, “to make a confession.”
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