英语词汇bowels of compassion的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bowels of compassion. Though not a common expres- sion anymore, these words are frequently encountered in lit- erature. The phrase itself is given in the King James Bible (I John 3:17), and Shakespeare, Congreve, and other great writ- ers all made use of the ancient idea that the bowels are the seat of misery or compassion in the body—just as the liver was supposed to be the location of courage; the heart of affec- tion and learning (learn by heart); the head of understanding; and the spleen of passion. The blunt word bowel comes from the Latin botellus, little sausage or pudding, a diminutive of the Latin word for sausage, botulus. Aside from the expres- sion the bowels of the earth, it is heard today mainly in medie- val references or in the entreaties of parents toilet-training children. Certainly it isn’t associated with compassion any- more, so once-current expressions such as the bowels of com- passion, the bowels of pity, the bowels of Christ, and child of my bowels have all but died.

词汇	bowels of compassion
词源	bowels of compassion. Though not a common expres- sion anymore, these words are frequently encountered in lit- erature. The phrase itself is given in the King James Bible (I John 3:17), and Shakespeare, Congreve, and other great writ- ers all made use of the ancient idea that the bowels are the seat of misery or compassion in the body—just as the liver was supposed to be the location of courage; the heart of affec- tion and learning (learn by heart); the head of understanding; and the spleen of passion. The blunt word bowel comes from the Latin botellus, little sausage or pudding, a diminutive of the Latin word for sausage, botulus. Aside from the expres- sion the bowels of the earth, it is heard today mainly in medie- val references or in the entreaties of parents toilet-training children. Certainly it isn’t associated with compassion any- more, so once-current expressions such as the bowels of com- passion, the bowels of pity, the bowels of Christ, and child of my bowels have all but died.
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