英语词汇forget-me-not的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

forget-me-not. We have it on the authority of the little vol- ume Drops from Flora’s Cup (1845) that this flower (Myosotis palustris), also called the “mouse ear” due to the resemblance of its small leaves to the ears of a mouse, received its more popular name in the following way: In an age when ladies were ladies and gentlemen were gentlemen, sometimes to a fault, an engaged lady and gentleman were walking on the banks of the Danube when the lady spied a flower floating on the water. Knowing that she was sad to see the pretty flower lost, the gentleman waded into the water to retrieve it. But he stepped in over his head and couldn’t get back to shore. With a last desperate effort he threw the flower at her feet, ex- claimed “forget me not,” and drowned. The flower’s name since that time has been the same. The tale is not recorded elsewhere, so far as I know.

词汇	forget-me-not
词源	forget-me-not. We have it on the authority of the little vol- ume Drops from Flora’s Cup (1845) that this flower (Myosotis palustris), also called the “mouse ear” due to the resemblance of its small leaves to the ears of a mouse, received its more popular name in the following way: In an age when ladies were ladies and gentlemen were gentlemen, sometimes to a fault, an engaged lady and gentleman were walking on the banks of the Danube when the lady spied a flower floating on the water. Knowing that she was sad to see the pretty flower lost, the gentleman waded into the water to retrieve it. But he stepped in over his head and couldn’t get back to shore. With a last desperate effort he threw the flower at her feet, ex- claimed “forget me not,” and drowned. The flower’s name since that time has been the same. The tale is not recorded elsewhere, so far as I know.
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