英语词汇book in breeches的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

book in breeches. The great English historian Thomas Bab- ington Macaulay was a walking library who had filled his head with learning ever since he began reading at age three. He was a “book in breeches,” the Reverend Sydney Smith (1771–1845) said, but Smith had some reservations about his loquacity. “Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from In- dia,” Smith said of the historian. “His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.” But then everyone had a bad word for Macaulay. “His conversation was a pro- cession of one,” said Florence Nightingale of him. “Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn’t want to live under Niagara,” said Carlyle. “I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything,” Viscount Melbourne said. Sydney Smith added that the historian “not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.”

词汇	book in breeches
词源	book in breeches. The great English historian Thomas Bab- ington Macaulay was a walking library who had filled his head with learning ever since he began reading at age three. He was a “book in breeches,” the Reverend Sydney Smith (1771–1845) said, but Smith had some reservations about his loquacity. “Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from In- dia,” Smith said of the historian. “His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.” But then everyone had a bad word for Macaulay. “His conversation was a pro- cession of one,” said Florence Nightingale of him. “Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn’t want to live under Niagara,” said Carlyle. “I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything,” Viscount Melbourne said. Sydney Smith added that the historian “not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.”
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