英语词汇thersitical的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

thersitical. Among the loudest, most foulmouthed men of all time was Thersites, an officer in the Greek army at the siege of Troy. The ugly, deformed Thersites, whose name means “the Audacious,” liked nothing better than arguing, we are told in the Iliad, his mean temper sparing no one, be he humble or great. Greek legend tells us that he reviled even Achilles— laughing at his grief over the death of Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons—and that Achilles promptly kayoed him perma- nently with one blow to the jaw. Thanks largely to Shakespeare’s treatment of the scurrilous Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, we have the adjective thersitical, “loudmouthed and foulmouthed.” See hector; nestor; stentorian.

词汇	thersitical
词源	thersitical. Among the loudest, most foulmouthed men of all time was Thersites, an officer in the Greek army at the siege of Troy. The ugly, deformed Thersites, whose name means “the Audacious,” liked nothing better than arguing, we are told in the Iliad, his mean temper sparing no one, be he humble or great. Greek legend tells us that he reviled even Achilles— laughing at his grief over the death of Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons—and that Achilles promptly kayoed him perma- nently with one blow to the jaw. Thanks largely to Shakespeare’s treatment of the scurrilous Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, we have the adjective thersitical, “loudmouthed and foulmouthed.” See hector; nestor; stentorian.
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