英语词汇olla podrida的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

olla podrida; potpourri. Olla podrida is Spanish for “a pu- trid or rotten pot” but it refers to a stew made of many kinds of meat, fowl, vegetables, and spices boiled in a large pot. Like the French pot-au-feu, it is made of many scraps, the “rotten” in the term referring not to its smell or taste, which is delicious, but to the way everything is cooked “leisurely, til it be rotten (as we say) and ready to fall in pieces.” Since the 16th century olla po- drida and olio, another word for the stew, have also meant an incongruous mixture, a hodgepodge, a farrago. Olla podrida isn’t always used disparagingly when applied to miscellaneous collections of any kind, such as literary pieces, drawings, and musical medley. Often it just means a medley or potpourri, which, in fact, is the French translation of olla podrida. Some samples of the expression’s use: “His work is an olla podrida of error, confusion’s masterpiece”; “This olla podrida of a brain of mine.” The nonce word ollapodridical means heterogeneous.

词汇	olla podrida
词源	olla podrida; potpourri. Olla podrida is Spanish for “a pu- trid or rotten pot” but it refers to a stew made of many kinds of meat, fowl, vegetables, and spices boiled in a large pot. Like the French pot-au-feu, it is made of many scraps, the “rotten” in the term referring not to its smell or taste, which is delicious, but to the way everything is cooked “leisurely, til it be rotten (as we say) and ready to fall in pieces.” Since the 16th century olla po- drida and olio, another word for the stew, have also meant an incongruous mixture, a hodgepodge, a farrago. Olla podrida isn’t always used disparagingly when applied to miscellaneous collections of any kind, such as literary pieces, drawings, and musical medley. Often it just means a medley or potpourri, which, in fact, is the French translation of olla podrida. Some samples of the expression’s use: “His work is an olla podrida of error, confusion’s masterpiece”; “This olla podrida of a brain of mine.” The nonce word ollapodridical means heterogeneous.
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