英语词汇black book的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

black book. None of the slang dictionaries seem to record it, but a little black book has for at least half a century been the name for any Casanova’s address book filled with the names, ad- dresses, and especially phone numbers of desirable or compliant companions. But black book has far greater historical impor- tance as the synonym for a book containing the names of people liable to censure or punishment, the term used most frequently in the phrase I’m in his black book, meaning “in disfavor with someone.” The first such black books were compiled by agents of Henry VIII, who listed English monasteries under the pretext that they were sinful but really in order to convince Parliament to dissolve them so that the crown could claim their lands— which Parliament did in 1536. Later, the British universities, the army, and the police began the practice of listing censured peo- ple in black books, which reinforced the meaning of the term.

词汇	black book
词源	black book. None of the slang dictionaries seem to record it, but a little black book has for at least half a century been the name for any Casanova’s address book filled with the names, ad- dresses, and especially phone numbers of desirable or compliant companions. But black book has far greater historical impor- tance as the synonym for a book containing the names of people liable to censure or punishment, the term used most frequently in the phrase I’m in his black book, meaning “in disfavor with someone.” The first such black books were compiled by agents of Henry VIII, who listed English monasteries under the pretext that they were sinful but really in order to convince Parliament to dissolve them so that the crown could claim their lands— which Parliament did in 1536. Later, the British universities, the army, and the police began the practice of listing censured peo- ple in black books, which reinforced the meaning of the term.
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