英语词汇babe in the woods的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

babe in the woods. The old ballad “Children in the Wood” (1595), gives us the still-common expression a babe in the woods, for someone easily gulled because he is simple and trustful, inexperienced in life or some aspect of life. The ballad probably predates a tragedy by Robert Harrington on the same theme that was written in about 1601. Both play and ballad tell the story of two children left by their dying father to the care of his wife’s brother. The brother, wanting their inheritance, hires two men to kill the children, but one of them repents and kills his companion, abandoning the children in the wood, where they die. The wicked uncle is arrested and dies in jail and the hired killer is sentenced to death. The ballad was vastly popu- lar, and no doubt became a nursery story, too.

词汇	babe in the woods
词源	babe in the woods. The old ballad “Children in the Wood” (1595), gives us the still-common expression a babe in the woods, for someone easily gulled because he is simple and trustful, inexperienced in life or some aspect of life. The ballad probably predates a tragedy by Robert Harrington on the same theme that was written in about 1601. Both play and ballad tell the story of two children left by their dying father to the care of his wife’s brother. The brother, wanting their inheritance, hires two men to kill the children, but one of them repents and kills his companion, abandoning the children in the wood, where they die. The wicked uncle is arrested and dies in jail and the hired killer is sentenced to death. The ballad was vastly popu- lar, and no doubt became a nursery story, too.
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