英语词汇escape的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

escape. The Latin word excappare (from ex, “out of,” and cap- pa, “cloak”) means “to slip out of one’s cloak,” and is the ances- tor of our word escape, although the Greeks had a similar word meaning literally “to get out of one’s clothes.” The idea behind these words is probably someone slipping out of a cloak or coat held by a robber or jailer, and escaping, leaving the villain or keeper with the cloak in his hands. An escape in gardening ter- minology is any cultivated plant, such as phlox, daylily or lily of the valley, that runs wild and propagates itself without further cultivation.

词汇	escape
词源	escape. The Latin word excappare (from ex, “out of,” and cap- pa, “cloak”) means “to slip out of one’s cloak,” and is the ances- tor of our word escape, although the Greeks had a similar word meaning literally “to get out of one’s clothes.” The idea behind these words is probably someone slipping out of a cloak or coat held by a robber or jailer, and escaping, leaving the villain or keeper with the cloak in his hands. An escape in gardening ter- minology is any cultivated plant, such as phlox, daylily or lily of the valley, that runs wild and propagates itself without further cultivation.
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