英语词汇hail fellow well met的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Hail fellow well met. The exclamation of welcome or greet- ing, hail, goes back over a thousand years, as in the Anglo- Saxon expression wes hal, “may you be in good health.” Hail fel- low well met, for “a jovial, convivial person, a good mixer,” is one of the longest phrases treated as a descriptive word in En- glish and is recorded in print as early as 1550. No doubt it is older still and it possibly originated as a greeting: “Hail, fellow! Well met!” Today the exclamation Well met! is sometimes, though rarely, used to mean “Glad I met you!” English satirist Jonathan Swift used the expression in his poem “My Lady’s Lamentation” (1765):

词汇	hail fellow well met
词源	Hail fellow well met. The exclamation of welcome or greet- ing, hail, goes back over a thousand years, as in the Anglo- Saxon expression wes hal, “may you be in good health.” Hail fel- low well met, for “a jovial, convivial person, a good mixer,” is one of the longest phrases treated as a descriptive word in En- glish and is recorded in print as early as 1550. No doubt it is older still and it possibly originated as a greeting: “Hail, fellow! Well met!” Today the exclamation Well met! is sometimes, though rarely, used to mean “Glad I met you!” English satirist Jonathan Swift used the expression in his poem “My Lady’s Lamentation” (1765): Hail fellow, well met, All dirty and wet; Find out if you can Who’s master, who’s man.
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