英语词汇a bird in hand的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

a bird in hand. This proverbial expression can be traced back in English to the early 16th century, when it is rendered as “A byrde yn hande ys better than three yn in the wode,” and prob- ably much earlier, counting variations such as “Some bete the bush and some the byrdes take” (1440). Later, Cervantes used it in Don Quixote in the full form best known today: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Actually, the proverb, which is found in German, French, Italian, and several other languag- es, has its direct ancestor in an ancient saying from Plutarch’s Of Garrulity, written in about a.d. 100: “He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.” It is what Weekley calls one of those proverbial expressions “which contain the wisdom of the ages.”

词汇	a bird in hand
词源	a bird in hand. This proverbial expression can be traced back in English to the early 16th century, when it is rendered as “A byrde yn hande ys better than three yn in the wode,” and prob- ably much earlier, counting variations such as “Some bete the bush and some the byrdes take” (1440). Later, Cervantes used it in Don Quixote in the full form best known today: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Actually, the proverb, which is found in German, French, Italian, and several other languag- es, has its direct ancestor in an ancient saying from Plutarch’s Of Garrulity, written in about a.d. 100: “He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.” It is what Weekley calls one of those proverbial expressions “which contain the wisdom of the ages.”
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