英语词汇green thumb的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

green thumb. No one, it seemed, knew why the Italian monk Fra Antonio could make plants grow so well in the cloister garden. But one day an elderly monk watching Fra Antonio observed that he had a green thumb on his right hand, which made him an excellent gardener—the green thumb, no doubt, colored by the plants he had been handling. This is a nice little story, but so far as we know the term green thumb doesn’t go back to medieval times. In fact, it is first re- corded in 1925 by Dean Middleton, a BBC broadcaster and garden-book author. It is probable that Middleton merely pop- ularized the phrase, which many people remembered hearing around 1910 and is probably a generation older. See white thumb.

词汇	green thumb
词源	green thumb. No one, it seemed, knew why the Italian monk Fra Antonio could make plants grow so well in the cloister garden. But one day an elderly monk watching Fra Antonio observed that he had a green thumb on his right hand, which made him an excellent gardener—the green thumb, no doubt, colored by the plants he had been handling. This is a nice little story, but so far as we know the term green thumb doesn’t go back to medieval times. In fact, it is first re- corded in 1925 by Dean Middleton, a BBC broadcaster and garden-book author. It is probable that Middleton merely pop- ularized the phrase, which many people remembered hearing around 1910 and is probably a generation older. See white thumb.
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