英语词汇grow like topsy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

grow like Topsy. “Never was born, never had no father, nor mother, not nothin’ . . . I ’spect I growed,” the slave child Topsy replies when Aunt Ophelia, a white woman from the North, questions her about her family. The scene in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852), the most popular book of its day, had great im- pact, especially in dramatic versions of the novel, and inspired the saying to grow like Topsy, describing any unplanned, often sudden growth. Little Eva’s companion, like Uncle Tom and the brutal, drunken planter Simon Legree, has become part of the language, and Mrs. Stowe’s book, despite its faults, has spawned more new words than any other American novel.

词汇	grow like topsy
词源	grow like Topsy. “Never was born, never had no father, nor mother, not nothin’ . . . I ’spect I growed,” the slave child Topsy replies when Aunt Ophelia, a white woman from the North, questions her about her family. The scene in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852), the most popular book of its day, had great im- pact, especially in dramatic versions of the novel, and inspired the saying to grow like Topsy, describing any unplanned, often sudden growth. Little Eva’s companion, like Uncle Tom and the brutal, drunken planter Simon Legree, has become part of the language, and Mrs. Stowe’s book, despite its faults, has spawned more new words than any other American novel.
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