英语词汇bump on a log的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bump on a log. “Ye ain’t goin to set there like a bump on a log ‘thout sayin’ a word to pay fer yer vittles, air ye?” This recorded use of the above American expression, from Kate Douglas Wiggins’s The Bird’s Christmas Carol (1899), uses the words as they are still used today and best defines them. The metaphor is a good one, for a log is stolid and stupid, and a bump on a log seems all the more so. Also, sitting next to someone who is like a bump on a log, who just sits silently without being able to make conversation, is as uncomfortable as sitting on a bump on a log.

词汇	bump on a log
词源	bump on a log. “Ye ain’t goin to set there like a bump on a log ‘thout sayin’ a word to pay fer yer vittles, air ye?” This recorded use of the above American expression, from Kate Douglas Wiggins’s The Bird’s Christmas Carol (1899), uses the words as they are still used today and best defines them. The metaphor is a good one, for a log is stolid and stupid, and a bump on a log seems all the more so. Also, sitting next to someone who is like a bump on a log, who just sits silently without being able to make conversation, is as uncomfortable as sitting on a bump on a log.
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