英语词汇by george的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

by George. Ben Jonson (and presumably his contemporar- ies) used the mild oath by St. George! as far back as 1598, but it wasn’t until the late 19th century that the expression began to be shortened to by George! St. George has been the patron saint of England since the institution of the Order of the Garter. A historical character about whom little is really known, the pa- tron saint of soldiers was perhaps a soldier in the Roman army who was martyred for the faith in Asia Minor. In legend he is said to have slain a dragon that fed on villagers at Silene, Libya, rescuing the Princess Sabra from its clutches. This tale of course became a Christian allegory for good triumphing over evil. The name George has its roots in the Greek Georgos, “a farmer,” lit- erally a worker of the earth. The word comes from the Greek ge, “the earth,” and legon, “a work,” which also gives us Virgil’s Georgics, an “agricultural poem” about the land and the men working it.

词汇	by george
词源	by George. Ben Jonson (and presumably his contemporar- ies) used the mild oath by St. George! as far back as 1598, but it wasn’t until the late 19th century that the expression began to be shortened to by George! St. George has been the patron saint of England since the institution of the Order of the Garter. A historical character about whom little is really known, the pa- tron saint of soldiers was perhaps a soldier in the Roman army who was martyred for the faith in Asia Minor. In legend he is said to have slain a dragon that fed on villagers at Silene, Libya, rescuing the Princess Sabra from its clutches. This tale of course became a Christian allegory for good triumphing over evil. The name George has its roots in the Greek Georgos, “a farmer,” lit- erally a worker of the earth. The word comes from the Greek ge, “the earth,” and legon, “a work,” which also gives us Virgil’s Georgics, an “agricultural poem” about the land and the men working it.
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