英语词汇third degree的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

third degree. As a term for “prolonged questioning and rough handling of a person by the police in order to obtain in- formation or a confession of guilt,” to get the third degree dates back only to about the 1890s in America. The phrase has no connection with “murder in the third degree” or any language of criminal law. The third degree is the highest degree, that of Master Mason, in Freemasonry. Any Mason must undergo very difficult tests of proficiency before he qualifies for the third de- gree and it is probably from these “tests” that the exhaustive questioning of criminals came to be called the third degree, though there is no brutality, physical or mental, involved in the Masonic exam.

词汇	third degree
词源	third degree. As a term for “prolonged questioning and rough handling of a person by the police in order to obtain in- formation or a confession of guilt,” to get the third degree dates back only to about the 1890s in America. The phrase has no connection with “murder in the third degree” or any language of criminal law. The third degree is the highest degree, that of Master Mason, in Freemasonry. Any Mason must undergo very difficult tests of proficiency before he qualifies for the third de- gree and it is probably from these “tests” that the exhaustive questioning of criminals came to be called the third degree, though there is no brutality, physical or mental, involved in the Masonic exam.
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