英语词汇hiss的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hiss. We find hiss as “a sound uttered in disapproval or scorn” (said to derive from the hissing sound made by geese) first re- corded in the O.E.D. in the review of a 1602 play. Many years later, British author Charles Lamb saw his first play hissed off the stage and actually joined in the hissing so that he wouldn’t be recognized as the author by the violent audience. Lamb, however, had the last word about the hissing, writing: “Mercy on us, that God should give his favorite children, men, mouths to speak with, discourse rationality, to promise smoothly, to flatter agreeably, to encourage warmly, to counsel wisely; to sing with, drink with, and to kiss with; and that they should turn them into mouths of adders, bears, wolves, hyenas, and whistle like tempests, and emit breath through them like distil- lations of aspic poison, to asperse and vilify the innocent labour of their fellow creatures who are desirous to please them. God be pleased to make the breath stink and the teeth rot out of them all therefore!” Another time a loud hiss came forth from somewhere in the audience while Lamb was delivering a lec- ture. After a brief silence, Lamb, showing no emotion, simply said: “There are only three things that hiss—a goose, a snake, and a fool. Come forth and be identified.”

词汇	hiss
词源	hiss. We find hiss as “a sound uttered in disapproval or scorn” (said to derive from the hissing sound made by geese) first re- corded in the O.E.D. in the review of a 1602 play. Many years later, British author Charles Lamb saw his first play hissed off the stage and actually joined in the hissing so that he wouldn’t be recognized as the author by the violent audience. Lamb, however, had the last word about the hissing, writing: “Mercy on us, that God should give his favorite children, men, mouths to speak with, discourse rationality, to promise smoothly, to flatter agreeably, to encourage warmly, to counsel wisely; to sing with, drink with, and to kiss with; and that they should turn them into mouths of adders, bears, wolves, hyenas, and whistle like tempests, and emit breath through them like distil- lations of aspic poison, to asperse and vilify the innocent labour of their fellow creatures who are desirous to please them. God be pleased to make the breath stink and the teeth rot out of them all therefore!” Another time a loud hiss came forth from somewhere in the audience while Lamb was delivering a lec- ture. After a brief silence, Lamb, showing no emotion, simply said: “There are only three things that hiss—a goose, a snake, and a fool. Come forth and be identified.”
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