英语词汇homage的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	homage
词源	homage. When we pay homage to someone we are acknowl- edging our respect for him. This is what peasants were required by law to do in a medieval ceremony called homage (from the French homme, “man”), which demanded that a vassal kneel before his lord on the feudal estate and swear allegiance that he would ever be his man. From the ceremony comes our word homage, first recorded in 1390 in anything like its modern sense.
随便看	what we gave we have what we have here is failure to communicate what will be will be wheatear wheat germ wheel wheelbarrow fashion wheeler dealer when a dog bites a man when chickens have teeth when hemp is spun england-s done when in doubt win the trick when in rome do as the romans do when it hits the fan when my ship comes in when one door shuts another opens when the cat-s away the mice will play when the cocqcigrues come when the going gets tough the tough get going when the rubber hits the road when the shit hits the fan when the world grows honest when two people ride a horse one must ride behind when you call me that smile when you seek revenge dig two graves—one for your enemy one for yourself

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