英语词汇bee in his her bonnet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

I’le seek him in your eyes. Robert Herrick’s little-known poem “Mad Maid’s Song,” above, written in 1648, is supposed to be the basis for the expression to have a bee in one’s bonnet, “to be eccentric, have a screw loose, es- pecially to be obsessed with one idea.” If the poem is implying in the last two lines that the mad maid is slightly insane, this is the case. Herrick was probably playing with an older expression, “to have bees in the head or brain,” which means the same and dates back to the early 16th century. Bees humming in the head obvi- ously suggested an obsessive idea busy at work there. A bonnet at the time was either a man’s or woman’s hat.

词汇	bee in his her bonnet
词源	bee in his (her) bonnet. Ah! woe is mee, woe, woe is mee Alack and well-a-day! For pity, sir, find out the bee, Which bore my love away. I’le seek him in your bonnet brave, I’le seek him in your eyes. Robert Herrick’s little-known poem “Mad Maid’s Song,” above, written in 1648, is supposed to be the basis for the expression to have a bee in one’s bonnet, “to be eccentric, have a screw loose, es- pecially to be obsessed with one idea.” If the poem is implying in the last two lines that the mad maid is slightly insane, this is the case. Herrick was probably playing with an older expression, “to have bees in the head or brain,” which means the same and dates back to the early 16th century. Bees humming in the head obvi- ously suggested an obsessive idea busy at work there. A bonnet at the time was either a man’s or woman’s hat.
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