英语词汇sour grapes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sour grapes. In Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes,” a fox spies luscious-looking grapes hanging from a vine. He leaps a number of times trying to get them, failing by a few inches with each leap, and gives up after rationalizing that they are probably sour and inedible anyway. La Fontaine, another great fabulist, later regarded the fox as admirable, remarking that his words were “better than complaining,” but the fox’s sour grapes have come to mean any belittling, envious remark.

词汇	sour grapes
词源	sour grapes. In Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes,” a fox spies luscious-looking grapes hanging from a vine. He leaps a number of times trying to get them, failing by a few inches with each leap, and gives up after rationalizing that they are probably sour and inedible anyway. La Fontaine, another great fabulist, later regarded the fox as admirable, remarking that his words were “better than complaining,” but the fox’s sour grapes have come to mean any belittling, envious remark.
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