英语词汇frozen words的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

frozen words. An old story from the Texas Panhandle tells of a winter so cold that spoken words froze in the air, fell entan- gled on the ground, and had to be fried up in a skillet before the letters would reform and any sense could be made of them. The idea is an ancient one, used by Rabelais and familiar to the Greek dramatist Antiphanes, who is said to have used it in praising the work of Plato: “As the cold of certain cities is so in- tense that it freezes the very words we utter, which remain con- gealed till the heat of summer thaws them, so the mind of youth is so thoughtless that the wisdom of Plato lies there fro- zen, as it were, till it is thawed by the refined judgement of ma- ture age.”

词汇	frozen words
词源	frozen words. An old story from the Texas Panhandle tells of a winter so cold that spoken words froze in the air, fell entan- gled on the ground, and had to be fried up in a skillet before the letters would reform and any sense could be made of them. The idea is an ancient one, used by Rabelais and familiar to the Greek dramatist Antiphanes, who is said to have used it in praising the work of Plato: “As the cold of certain cities is so in- tense that it freezes the very words we utter, which remain con- gealed till the heat of summer thaws them, so the mind of youth is so thoughtless that the wisdom of Plato lies there fro- zen, as it were, till it is thawed by the refined judgement of ma- ture age.”
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