英语词汇bitin’ and gougin’的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bitin’ and gougin’. Ernest Hemingway described this vicious kind of fighting (sometimes seen in the ring today) in one of his late Michigan stories. It was often practiced by frontiers- men and mountaineers, a brutal practice in which ears, noses, and cheeks were bitten off and eyes were actually gouged out of the sockets. Harry M. Caudell wrote of it in Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1963): “A story is told of a mountaineer . . . at- tacked by a large and angry female bear. . . . The monster hugged him in her immense forepaws and undertook to bite away his face. But the mountaineer was determined to die hard. He seized the end of the bear’s nose between his sturdy teeth and plunged his thumbs deep into bruin’s eyes. With a roar the bear flung him aside and fled, leaving the tip of her nose in his mouth. The victim later proudly displayed her nose, explaining that ‘bars can’t stand bitin’ and gougin.’ Whether true or not, the tale illustrates the vital savagery which the early mountain- eers perpetrated so long.”

词汇	bitin’ and gougin’
词源	bitin’ and gougin’. Ernest Hemingway described this vicious kind of fighting (sometimes seen in the ring today) in one of his late Michigan stories. It was often practiced by frontiers- men and mountaineers, a brutal practice in which ears, noses, and cheeks were bitten off and eyes were actually gouged out of the sockets. Harry M. Caudell wrote of it in Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1963): “A story is told of a mountaineer . . . at- tacked by a large and angry female bear. . . . The monster hugged him in her immense forepaws and undertook to bite away his face. But the mountaineer was determined to die hard. He seized the end of the bear’s nose between his sturdy teeth and plunged his thumbs deep into bruin’s eyes. With a roar the bear flung him aside and fled, leaving the tip of her nose in his mouth. The victim later proudly displayed her nose, explaining that ‘bars can’t stand bitin’ and gougin.’ Whether true or not, the tale illustrates the vital savagery which the early mountain- eers perpetrated so long.”
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