英语词汇blues的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

blues; blue devils. Blues, for a state of depression or de- spair, is probably a shortening of the 18th-century expression blue devils, or low spirits. Surprisingly, Washington Irving first used the term in Salmagundi as far back as 1807: “[He] concluded his harangue with a sigh, and I saw that he was still under the influence of a whole legion of the blues.” Later blue devils became the hallucinations associated with the D.T.s, or delirium tremens, and a blue devil is now drug users’ slang for sodium amytal, suggested by the color of the capsule and the narcotic’s effects. Blue devils, blue, blue-eyed, and blue around the gills all have meant drunk in one way or another, possibly because blue is the color of approaching death and they are all associated with the seven stages of drunkenness. This would also explain the linking of blues with depression. The blues, toward the end of the 19th century, gave their name to the melancholy jazz music called the blues, deriving in part from sad black prison and funeral songs of slavery and oppression.

词汇	blues
词源	blues; blue devils. Blues, for a state of depression or de- spair, is probably a shortening of the 18th-century expression blue devils, or low spirits. Surprisingly, Washington Irving first used the term in Salmagundi as far back as 1807: “[He] concluded his harangue with a sigh, and I saw that he was still under the influence of a whole legion of the blues.” Later blue devils became the hallucinations associated with the D.T.s, or delirium tremens, and a blue devil is now drug users’ slang for sodium amytal, suggested by the color of the capsule and the narcotic’s effects. Blue devils, blue, blue-eyed, and blue around the gills all have meant drunk in one way or another, possibly because blue is the color of approaching death and they are all associated with the seven stages of drunkenness. This would also explain the linking of blues with depression. The blues, toward the end of the 19th century, gave their name to the melancholy jazz music called the blues, deriving in part from sad black prison and funeral songs of slavery and oppression.
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