英语词汇hogan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hogan; Hogan’s goat, etc. Goats don’t eat tin cans (they eat the paper labels off them), but they do stink. For this reason, and no other, anything said to be like Hogan’s goat (a play, a book, or whatever) is something that is very bad, that really stinks. Hogan is just a common name affixed to this American- ism that dates back to the turn of the century—no real Hogan has anything to do with it. “Hogan’s brickyard,” for a rough- hewn baseball diamond—one usually in a vacant lot—is a simi- lar expression, but Hogan, a variety of cotton, is named for its 19th-century developer, William Hogan. The Navaho Indian hogan is a dwelling constructed of earth and branches, usually built with the entrance facing east. Wrote Willa Cather in Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927): “The Navajo hogans, among the sand and willows. None of the pueblos would at that time admit glass windows into their dwellings. The reflection of the sun on the glazing was to them ugly and unnatural—even dangerous.”

词汇	hogan
词源	hogan; Hogan’s goat, etc. Goats don’t eat tin cans (they eat the paper labels off them), but they do stink. For this reason, and no other, anything said to be like Hogan’s goat (a play, a book, or whatever) is something that is very bad, that really stinks. Hogan is just a common name affixed to this American- ism that dates back to the turn of the century—no real Hogan has anything to do with it. “Hogan’s brickyard,” for a rough- hewn baseball diamond—one usually in a vacant lot—is a simi- lar expression, but Hogan, a variety of cotton, is named for its 19th-century developer, William Hogan. The Navaho Indian hogan is a dwelling constructed of earth and branches, usually built with the entrance facing east. Wrote Willa Cather in Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927): “The Navajo hogans, among the sand and willows. None of the pueblos would at that time admit glass windows into their dwellings. The reflection of the sun on the glazing was to them ugly and unnatural—even dangerous.”
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