英语词汇pea的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pea. The word pea comes indirectly from the Latin pisum, “pea”; the early English singular for pea was pease, hence the old rhyme “pease-porridge hot, / Pease-porridge cold, / Pease- porridge in the pot, / Nine days old.” Quite a mania for peas ex- isted in 17th-century France. Madame de Maintenon, Louis XIV’s mistress, called it “both a fashion and a madness,” and it was at this time that the celebrated petits pois à la française was invented. Incidentally, it was quite proper at the time to lick green peas from their shells after dropping the whole pod in a sauce, so eating peas off a knife isn’t so bad after all. Chinese sugar or snow peas, eaten pod and all, are sometimes properly called mangetout (“eat all”). Till the last pea’s out of the dish is a southern Americanism meaning “till the end,” or “a long time.” Red Barber popularized the southern expression tearing up the pea patch for “going on a rampage” when he broadcast Brook- lyn Dodger baseball games from 1945 to 1955, using it often to describe fights on the field between players. Barber came from the South, where the expression is an old one, referring to the prized patch of black-eyed peas, which stray animals some- times ruined. “English peas” is a term used in the South for green peas to distinguish them from the black-eyed or brown- eyed varieties. See blacked-eyed peas.

词汇	pea
词源	pea. The word pea comes indirectly from the Latin pisum, “pea”; the early English singular for pea was pease, hence the old rhyme “pease-porridge hot, / Pease-porridge cold, / Pease- porridge in the pot, / Nine days old.” Quite a mania for peas ex- isted in 17th-century France. Madame de Maintenon, Louis XIV’s mistress, called it “both a fashion and a madness,” and it was at this time that the celebrated petits pois à la française was invented. Incidentally, it was quite proper at the time to lick green peas from their shells after dropping the whole pod in a sauce, so eating peas off a knife isn’t so bad after all. Chinese sugar or snow peas, eaten pod and all, are sometimes properly called mangetout (“eat all”). Till the last pea’s out of the dish is a southern Americanism meaning “till the end,” or “a long time.” Red Barber popularized the southern expression tearing up the pea patch for “going on a rampage” when he broadcast Brook- lyn Dodger baseball games from 1945 to 1955, using it often to describe fights on the field between players. Barber came from the South, where the expression is an old one, referring to the prized patch of black-eyed peas, which stray animals some- times ruined. “English peas” is a term used in the South for green peas to distinguish them from the black-eyed or brown- eyed varieties. See blacked-eyed peas.
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