英语词汇bundling的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bundling. In the late 1700s many tracts pro and con were written about the custom of bundling, which was all the rage in America at the time. When bundling, courting couples would lie in the same bed partly or fully clothed, sometimes with a special bundling board between them. Often the bundling board was breached or hurdled and the couples groped in the dark for additional ways to keep warm, and that is where the controversy came in. In his Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Grose defined bundling as “A man and woman lying on the same bed with their clothes on; an expedient practiced in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such occasions, hus- bands and parents frequently permitted travelers to ‘bundle’ with their wives and daughters.” But there was more to the practice than the scarcity of beds or the lack of heat, as Wash- ington Irving noted in his History of New York. Irving cited those “cunning and ingenious” Yankees who permitted young couples to bundle due to their “strict adherence to the good old pithy maxim about ‘buying a pig in a poke.’ ” On the other hand, one old gentleman, explaining the custom to his grand- son late in the 19th century, emphasized the practicality of bundling and denied any wrongdoing on the part of the partici- pants. “What is the use of sitting up all night and burning out fire and lights, when you could just as well get under cover and keep warm?” he said. “Why, damn it, there wasn’t half as many bastards then as there are now!” In any event, bundling was with us from the beginning in America and came close to be- ing a universal custom from 1700 to 1780.

词汇	bundling
词源	bundling. In the late 1700s many tracts pro and con were written about the custom of bundling, which was all the rage in America at the time. When bundling, courting couples would lie in the same bed partly or fully clothed, sometimes with a special bundling board between them. Often the bundling board was breached or hurdled and the couples groped in the dark for additional ways to keep warm, and that is where the controversy came in. In his Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Grose defined bundling as “A man and woman lying on the same bed with their clothes on; an expedient practiced in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such occasions, hus- bands and parents frequently permitted travelers to ‘bundle’ with their wives and daughters.” But there was more to the practice than the scarcity of beds or the lack of heat, as Wash- ington Irving noted in his History of New York. Irving cited those “cunning and ingenious” Yankees who permitted young couples to bundle due to their “strict adherence to the good old pithy maxim about ‘buying a pig in a poke.’ ” On the other hand, one old gentleman, explaining the custom to his grand- son late in the 19th century, emphasized the practicality of bundling and denied any wrongdoing on the part of the partici- pants. “What is the use of sitting up all night and burning out fire and lights, when you could just as well get under cover and keep warm?” he said. “Why, damn it, there wasn’t half as many bastards then as there are now!” In any event, bundling was with us from the beginning in America and came close to be- ing a universal custom from 1700 to 1780.
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