英语词汇occupy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Turn arse to arse, and take your rest. The old song, quoted in John S. Farmer’s Vocabula Amatoria (1890), shows that to occupy was once a synonym for cohabita- tion. In fact, as Joseph Shipley points out in an article in Male- dicta (to which I owe most of the information in this entry) the word occupy in all its senses became increasingly rare throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, when the verb took on this meaning. People ceased to use it, even Shakespeare com- menting on this in Henry IV, Part II: “A Captaine? Gods light, those villains will rake the word as advises as the word occupy, which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted.” Luckily, occupy survived the puritanical onslaught. Other words haven’t. The “cock,” for example, is now almost always the “roost- er,” the “ass” is the “donkey,” “haycocks” are “haystacks,” “weath- ercocks” are “weather vanes,” and “apricocks” are “apricots.” Old Bronson Allcox even changed his name to Alcott, so that the au- thor of Little Women isn’t known as Louisa May Allcox.

词汇	occupy
词源	occupy. All you that in your beds do lie Turn to your wives and occupy, And when that you have done your best Turn arse to arse, and take your rest. The old song, quoted in John S. Farmer’s Vocabula Amatoria (1890), shows that to occupy was once a synonym for cohabita- tion. In fact, as Joseph Shipley points out in an article in Male- dicta (to which I owe most of the information in this entry) the word occupy in all its senses became increasingly rare throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, when the verb took on this meaning. People ceased to use it, even Shakespeare com- menting on this in Henry IV, Part II: “A Captaine? Gods light, those villains will rake the word as advises as the word occupy, which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted.” Luckily, occupy survived the puritanical onslaught. Other words haven’t. The “cock,” for example, is now almost always the “roost- er,” the “ass” is the “donkey,” “haycocks” are “haystacks,” “weath- ercocks” are “weather vanes,” and “apricocks” are “apricots.” Old Bronson Allcox even changed his name to Alcott, so that the au- thor of Little Women isn’t known as Louisa May Allcox.
随便看	you gotta believe you have money give money you have the words but you don’t have the music you know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch you might as well appeal against the thunderstorm you never miss the water till the well runs dry youngberry young folk of the pear garden young in at heart young turk young whippersnapper you pays your money and you take your choice your all-s your epitaph your majesty yourself youse you should see the other guy you-uns you want it bad you get it bad you’re darn tootin’ you’re not the only pebble on the beach you’re pulling my leg yo-yo ypocras