英语词汇blackguard的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

blackguard. The modern meaning of blackguard, a low, con- temptible person, may derive from the characteristics of medi- eval kitchen servants, who were humorously called blackguards in allusion to their filthy appearance and the black pots and pans that they guarded when the household retinue moved from place to place. These kitchen workers surely weren’t always “rough and worthless knaves,” as one source has it, so the theory, accepted by most etymologists, isn’t entirely convincing. Perhaps the word really derives from some actual band of soldiers who wore black uniforms and whose vicious crimes are lost to history—unlike those of the contemporary blackshirts.

词汇	blackguard
词源	blackguard. The modern meaning of blackguard, a low, con- temptible person, may derive from the characteristics of medi- eval kitchen servants, who were humorously called blackguards in allusion to their filthy appearance and the black pots and pans that they guarded when the household retinue moved from place to place. These kitchen workers surely weren’t always “rough and worthless knaves,” as one source has it, so the theory, accepted by most etymologists, isn’t entirely convincing. Perhaps the word really derives from some actual band of soldiers who wore black uniforms and whose vicious crimes are lost to history—unlike those of the contemporary blackshirts.
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