英语词汇green-eyed monster的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

green-eyed monster. Why since the 16th century has the color green been associated with jealousy? It has been suggested that oriental jade ground into powder and used as a love potion by jealous suitors to win their loved ones has something to do with it, but that seems a farfetched explanation. Shakespeare was the first to use the expression green-eyed monster, in Othel- lo, where Iago says: “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/ It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on.” Clearly the reference here is to cats toying with their victims before killing and eating them, so the first green-eyed monster is a cat. However, before this, in The Merchant of Venice, Shake- speare wrote of green-eyed jealousy without any reference to a feline. We must mark the ultimate origin “unknown.”

词汇	green-eyed monster
词源	green-eyed monster. Why since the 16th century has the color green been associated with jealousy? It has been suggested that oriental jade ground into powder and used as a love potion by jealous suitors to win their loved ones has something to do with it, but that seems a farfetched explanation. Shakespeare was the first to use the expression green-eyed monster, in Othel- lo, where Iago says: “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/ It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on.” Clearly the reference here is to cats toying with their victims before killing and eating them, so the first green-eyed monster is a cat. However, before this, in The Merchant of Venice, Shake- speare wrote of green-eyed jealousy without any reference to a feline. We must mark the ultimate origin “unknown.”
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