英语词汇throw into stitches的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

throw into stitches. Here stabbing became a joking matter. The Old English stice, from the same Teutonic root that gives us “stick,” meant a prick, stab, or puncture inflicted by a pointed object, especially pain caused by acute spasms of the rib muscles after prolonged or violent exercise such as run- ning. These stitches in the side are more painful but similar to pains from excessive laughter, when one “laughs so much that it hurts.” Thus anyone who told a funny story that convulsed his audience was said to throw them into stitches. Shakespeare seems to have first suggested the expression in Twelfth Night (1601) when he wrote, “If you . . . will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me,” but when the exact words were coined is unknown. A stitch in sewing comes from the same root word.

词汇	throw into stitches
词源	throw into stitches. Here stabbing became a joking matter. The Old English stice, from the same Teutonic root that gives us “stick,” meant a prick, stab, or puncture inflicted by a pointed object, especially pain caused by acute spasms of the rib muscles after prolonged or violent exercise such as run- ning. These stitches in the side are more painful but similar to pains from excessive laughter, when one “laughs so much that it hurts.” Thus anyone who told a funny story that convulsed his audience was said to throw them into stitches. Shakespeare seems to have first suggested the expression in Twelfth Night (1601) when he wrote, “If you . . . will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me,” but when the exact words were coined is unknown. A stitch in sewing comes from the same root word.
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