英语词汇the french disease的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the French disease. syphilis has been blamed on nearly ev- ery country and continent, always by residents of other coun- tries and continents. For Poles, it was the German sickness; the Russians blamed it on the Poles; to the Dutch it was the Spanish Pox; and carried to India, China, and Japan it was there branded the Portuguese disease. But the French have been blamed far more than most nations, mainly because they have long been widely associated with anything sexual. When in 1496 an Ital- ian wrote that “the French disease is a new plague . . . contract- ed by lying together,” the phrase was quickly adopted through- out Europe. In later years syphilis became French pox, French marbles, the French goods, the French gout, the French sickness, and a Frenchman. Furthermore, French crown long meant bald- ness produced by syphilis, to be Frenchified meant to be venere- ally infected, and a French pig was a venereal sore. As for the French, they steadfastly refused to call the disease anything but the Italian or the Naples disease.

词汇	the french disease
词源	the French disease. syphilis has been blamed on nearly ev- ery country and continent, always by residents of other coun- tries and continents. For Poles, it was the German sickness; the Russians blamed it on the Poles; to the Dutch it was the Spanish Pox; and carried to India, China, and Japan it was there branded the Portuguese disease. But the French have been blamed far more than most nations, mainly because they have long been widely associated with anything sexual. When in 1496 an Ital- ian wrote that “the French disease is a new plague . . . contract- ed by lying together,” the phrase was quickly adopted through- out Europe. In later years syphilis became French pox, French marbles, the French goods, the French gout, the French sickness, and a Frenchman. Furthermore, French crown long meant bald- ness produced by syphilis, to be Frenchified meant to be venere- ally infected, and a French pig was a venereal sore. As for the French, they steadfastly refused to call the disease anything but the Italian or the Naples disease.
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