英语词汇canary的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

canary; sing like a canary. How did dogs give their name to canaries? It happened that in about 40 b.c. Juba, the native chief of Mauritania, explored a group of islands far off the coast of his kingdom and named the largest of them Canaria, or “Is- land of Dogs,” because of the wild dogs inhabiting it. Later visi- tors called the whole island group the Canary Islands, and when the grayish-green songbird of the island was tamed and exported in the 16th century, it became widely known as “the bird from the Canary Islands,” which was inevitably shortened to canary. Informants, or stool pigeons, are sometimes said by police to sing like a canary when they reveal everything they know, the expression dating back to the late 19th century.

词汇	canary
词源	canary; sing like a canary. How did dogs give their name to canaries? It happened that in about 40 b.c. Juba, the native chief of Mauritania, explored a group of islands far off the coast of his kingdom and named the largest of them Canaria, or “Is- land of Dogs,” because of the wild dogs inhabiting it. Later visi- tors called the whole island group the Canary Islands, and when the grayish-green songbird of the island was tamed and exported in the 16th century, it became widely known as “the bird from the Canary Islands,” which was inevitably shortened to canary. Informants, or stool pigeons, are sometimes said by police to sing like a canary when they reveal everything they know, the expression dating back to the late 19th century.
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