英语词汇slothful的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

slothful. Sloth, deriving from the Middle English slou, “slow,” dates back to at least 1175 as a word for laziness, and the adjec tive slothful is recorded as early as 1390. The arboreal mammal of South America called the sloth didn’t get its name until the early 19th century. The sloth does virtually nothing for weeks on end, not breathing for long periods, taking at least two weeks to digest its food, and not even springing up if it falls out of its tree. It was named by explorers who observed it, one de scribing how a sloth took “three or four days at least, in climb ing up and down a tree,” and another observing that one took “a whole day in going fifty paces.”

词汇	slothful
词源	slothful. Sloth, deriving from the Middle English slou, “slow,” dates back to at least 1175 as a word for laziness, and the adjec tive slothful is recorded as early as 1390. The arboreal mammal of South America called the sloth didn’t get its name until the early 19th century. The sloth does virtually nothing for weeks on end, not breathing for long periods, taking at least two weeks to digest its food, and not even springing up if it falls out of its tree. It was named by explorers who observed it, one de scribing how a sloth took “three or four days at least, in climb ing up and down a tree,” and another observing that one took “a whole day in going fifty paces.”
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