英语词汇peach的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

peach. Peaches were the “Persian apples” of the ancient Ro- mans. Their name, Persicum, became pessica in Late Latin, pêche in French, and finally came into English as peach. The fruit, luscious to look at, touch, and taste, has described a pretty young girl at least since the ancient Chinese used it as slang for a young bride centuries ago. But the Chinese, and the Arabs, too, also regarded the peach’s deep fur-edged cleft as a symbol of the female genitalia and used peach in a number of slang ex- pressions referring to sexual love, such as sharing the peach, a euphemism for sodomy. In Europe the French have used their word pêche in similar sexual expressions and a peach house was once common in English slang as a house of prostitutes. “Venus owns this tree . . . the fruit provokes lust,” English herbalist Ni- cholas Culpeper wrote in 1652 and language reflects that peo- ple around the world shared his opinion. The Elberta peach, the most widely sold of American peaches, was probably imported from Shanghai in 1850, but more than one source records a story that shows more imagination. According to this tale, Samuel Rumph of Marshallville, Georgia, received peach-tree buddings from a friend in Delaware, planted them, and eventu- ally harvested a good crop. His wife, Elberta, accidentally dropped a few pits from these peaches in her sewing basket and when their grandson wanted to start an orchard 10 years later, she dug them out and asked her husband to plant them. By 1870 trees from the pits were flourishing, and by an accidental cross-pollination a new golden variety resulted, which Rumph named for his spouse. Elbertas, however, aren’t considered great eating peaches by those who know their peaches.

词汇	peach
词源	peach. Peaches were the “Persian apples” of the ancient Ro- mans. Their name, Persicum, became pessica in Late Latin, pêche in French, and finally came into English as peach. The fruit, luscious to look at, touch, and taste, has described a pretty young girl at least since the ancient Chinese used it as slang for a young bride centuries ago. But the Chinese, and the Arabs, too, also regarded the peach’s deep fur-edged cleft as a symbol of the female genitalia and used peach in a number of slang ex- pressions referring to sexual love, such as sharing the peach, a euphemism for sodomy. In Europe the French have used their word pêche in similar sexual expressions and a peach house was once common in English slang as a house of prostitutes. “Venus owns this tree . . . the fruit provokes lust,” English herbalist Ni- cholas Culpeper wrote in 1652 and language reflects that peo- ple around the world shared his opinion. The Elberta peach, the most widely sold of American peaches, was probably imported from Shanghai in 1850, but more than one source records a story that shows more imagination. According to this tale, Samuel Rumph of Marshallville, Georgia, received peach-tree buddings from a friend in Delaware, planted them, and eventu- ally harvested a good crop. His wife, Elberta, accidentally dropped a few pits from these peaches in her sewing basket and when their grandson wanted to start an orchard 10 years later, she dug them out and asked her husband to plant them. By 1870 trees from the pits were flourishing, and by an accidental cross-pollination a new golden variety resulted, which Rumph named for his spouse. Elbertas, however, aren’t considered great eating peaches by those who know their peaches.
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