英语词汇even steven的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

even steven. Contrary to some accounts, there was never a gentleman named Steven who matched his wife blow for blow. The term apparently stems from a far less equitable character in Jonathan Swift’s Journal to Stella (1713): “ ‘Now we are even,’ quoth Steven, when he gave his wife six blows to one.” Stella was Swift’s name for Esther Johnson, and his Journal letters to her described his daily life in London. Their relationship was a complicated one. Swift, 14 years Stella’s senior, taught her to read and write, loved her all his life, and when he died was bur- ied beside her, but the two lovers probably never married.

词汇	even steven
词源	even steven. Contrary to some accounts, there was never a gentleman named Steven who matched his wife blow for blow. The term apparently stems from a far less equitable character in Jonathan Swift’s Journal to Stella (1713): “ ‘Now we are even,’ quoth Steven, when he gave his wife six blows to one.” Stella was Swift’s name for Esther Johnson, and his Journal letters to her described his daily life in London. Their relationship was a complicated one. Swift, 14 years Stella’s senior, taught her to read and write, loved her all his life, and when he died was bur- ied beside her, but the two lovers probably never married.
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