英语词汇nimrod的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Nimrod. In the Bible Nimrod is the son of Cush and the founder of Babel. He may have been an Assyrian king who built the city of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire. According to Scripture, Nimrod was “a mighty hunter before the Lord” (Gen. 10:8–10), and historians tell us that the Assyri- an kings were noted for their prowess in hunting. Aramaic translations of the Old Testament say “that mighty hunter be- fore the Lord” means “sinful hunter of the sons of men,” which accounts for Pope’s and Milton’s description of Nimrod as “a mighty hunter, and his prey was man.” But a Nimrod is more generally the nickname for a great, daring, and skillful hunter, or even sportsman. In recent slang it means a stupid person or a jerk, probably after a cartoon in which Bugs Bunny calls hunter Elmer Fudd “poor little Nimrod.”

词汇	nimrod
词源	Nimrod. In the Bible Nimrod is the son of Cush and the founder of Babel. He may have been an Assyrian king who built the city of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire. According to Scripture, Nimrod was “a mighty hunter before the Lord” (Gen. 10:8–10), and historians tell us that the Assyri- an kings were noted for their prowess in hunting. Aramaic translations of the Old Testament say “that mighty hunter be- fore the Lord” means “sinful hunter of the sons of men,” which accounts for Pope’s and Milton’s description of Nimrod as “a mighty hunter, and his prey was man.” But a Nimrod is more generally the nickname for a great, daring, and skillful hunter, or even sportsman. In recent slang it means a stupid person or a jerk, probably after a cartoon in which Bugs Bunny calls hunter Elmer Fudd “poor little Nimrod.”
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