英语词汇partridge的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

partridge; partridge, always partridge. Trace the roots of the word partridge back to the Greek perdika, “a partridge,” and you’ll find one of the oddest and most expurgated of bird name derivations. For the source for perdika is probably perd- esthai, “to fart,” the Greeks most likely naming the game bird for the sound the whirring wings of the rising bird made, which they thought resembled the breaking of wind. Par- tridge, always partridge (perdrix, toujours perdrix) means “too much of the same thing.” It’s said that the confessor of a French king admonished him for infidelity, and the king asked him what his favorite dish was. “Partridge,” the priest said, and the king ordered him to eat only partridge every day. “How were your meals?” the king asked after a few weeks, and the priest replied, “Very good, but partridge, always par- tridge.” “Ah, yes,” said the amorous king, “and one wife is all very well, but not ‘partridge, always partridge!’ ” Of the late brilliant lexicographer and etymologist Eric Partridge, an es- pecially indefatigable worker who took on jobs few others would consider tackling, it was once said, “Partridge is always game.” See saw.

词汇	partridge
词源	partridge; partridge, always partridge. Trace the roots of the word partridge back to the Greek perdika, “a partridge,” and you’ll find one of the oddest and most expurgated of bird name derivations. For the source for perdika is probably perd- esthai, “to fart,” the Greeks most likely naming the game bird for the sound the whirring wings of the rising bird made, which they thought resembled the breaking of wind. Par- tridge, always partridge (perdrix, toujours perdrix) means “too much of the same thing.” It’s said that the confessor of a French king admonished him for infidelity, and the king asked him what his favorite dish was. “Partridge,” the priest said, and the king ordered him to eat only partridge every day. “How were your meals?” the king asked after a few weeks, and the priest replied, “Very good, but partridge, always par- tridge.” “Ah, yes,” said the amorous king, “and one wife is all very well, but not ‘partridge, always partridge!’ ” Of the late brilliant lexicographer and etymologist Eric Partridge, an es- pecially indefatigable worker who took on jobs few others would consider tackling, it was once said, “Partridge is always game.” See saw.
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