英语词汇canard的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

canard. Canard means “duck” in French, and the word ca- nard, for “a ridiculously false story,” comes from the French ex- pression vendre un canard à moitié, literally, “to sell half a duck.” The expression means to make a fool out of a buyer, or anyone else, with a false story. Tellers of “half-ducks,” or canards, were known in France three centuries ago, and the word probably gained a firmer foothold with a hoax played by a Frenchman named Cornelessin, who, testing the gullibility of the public, published a story that he had 30 ducks, one of which he killed and threw to the other 29, who ate it. He then cut up a second, then a third, until the 29th duck was eaten by the survivor—an excellent, bull, duck, or canard story.

词汇	canard
词源	canard. Canard means “duck” in French, and the word ca- nard, for “a ridiculously false story,” comes from the French ex- pression vendre un canard à moitié, literally, “to sell half a duck.” The expression means to make a fool out of a buyer, or anyone else, with a false story. Tellers of “half-ducks,” or canards, were known in France three centuries ago, and the word probably gained a firmer foothold with a hoax played by a Frenchman named Cornelessin, who, testing the gullibility of the public, published a story that he had 30 ducks, one of which he killed and threw to the other 29, who ate it. He then cut up a second, then a third, until the 29th duck was eaten by the survivor—an excellent, bull, duck, or canard story.
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