英语词汇game的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

game. A game person is one who displays great courage and has the spirit of a gamecock (a cock bred and trained for cock- fighting). Gamecock is first recorded in 1677 in the saying “Young lovers, like gamecocks, are made bolder by being kept without light,” but cockfighting was brought to England by the Romans centuries before this. In the 12th century it was so pop- ular that English schoolmasters permitted students to stage cockfighting contests, as long as all the birds killed were given to the teacher. The courage of these fighting birds was much admired and it is the likely reason that courageous people were called game long before the expression was first recorded in 1727.

词汇	game
词源	game. A game person is one who displays great courage and has the spirit of a gamecock (a cock bred and trained for cock- fighting). Gamecock is first recorded in 1677 in the saying “Young lovers, like gamecocks, are made bolder by being kept without light,” but cockfighting was brought to England by the Romans centuries before this. In the 12th century it was so pop- ular that English schoolmasters permitted students to stage cockfighting contests, as long as all the birds killed were given to the teacher. The courage of these fighting birds was much admired and it is the likely reason that courageous people were called game long before the expression was first recorded in 1727.
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