英语词汇good ole boy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

good ole boy. Though it is used nationally now, a good ole boy is still generally a white southern male exemplifying the mas- culine ideals of the region; any amiable southerner, provided he likes guns, hunting, fishing, drinking, football, and women, in roughly that order; or a loyal southerner, rich or poor, devot- ed to all things southern. The term had popular use in the mid- 1960s. Said the late Billy Carter, President Jimmy Carter’s brother, of the good ole boy: “A good ole boy . . . is somebody that rides around in a pickup truck . . . and drinks beer and throws ’em out the window.” (Redneck Power: The Wit and Wis- dom of Billy Carter, 1977.) Perhaps older than good ole boy is the little-heard good ole rebel, which derives from a song enti- tled “Good Old Rebel” written by Innes Randolph in the 1870s: “I am a good old rebel—/ Yes, that’s just what I am—/ And for this land of freedom/ I do not give a damn. I’m glad I fit agin ’em/ And I only wish we’d won;/ And I don’t ax no pardon/ For anything I’ve done.” Hemingway uses good ole boy in A Farewell to Arms (1929): “You’re a good old boy,” the author says to his friend Captain Rinaldi.

词汇	good ole boy
词源	good ole boy. Though it is used nationally now, a good ole boy is still generally a white southern male exemplifying the mas- culine ideals of the region; any amiable southerner, provided he likes guns, hunting, fishing, drinking, football, and women, in roughly that order; or a loyal southerner, rich or poor, devot- ed to all things southern. The term had popular use in the mid- 1960s. Said the late Billy Carter, President Jimmy Carter’s brother, of the good ole boy: “A good ole boy . . . is somebody that rides around in a pickup truck . . . and drinks beer and throws ’em out the window.” (Redneck Power: The Wit and Wis- dom of Billy Carter, 1977.) Perhaps older than good ole boy is the little-heard good ole rebel, which derives from a song enti- tled “Good Old Rebel” written by Innes Randolph in the 1870s: “I am a good old rebel—/ Yes, that’s just what I am—/ And for this land of freedom/ I do not give a damn. I’m glad I fit agin ’em/ And I only wish we’d won;/ And I don’t ax no pardon/ For anything I’ve done.” Hemingway uses good ole boy in A Farewell to Arms (1929): “You’re a good old boy,” the author says to his friend Captain Rinaldi.
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