英语词汇humdrum的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

humdrum. Maybe the drum got in the word just because it rhymed with the monotonous hum, but humdrum does suggest both the monotony of a humming bee or other insect and a monotonous drumbeat. Anyway, humdrum sounds like the boredom it imitates, meaning routine, monotonous, and dull. The term has been around since the early 16th century. Addi- son in The Spectator (1711) told his readers about “The Hum- Drum Club . . . made up of very honest Gentlemen of peaceful Despositions, that used to sit together, smoke their pipes and say nothing till Mid-night.” A later writer, fed up with the hum- drumishness of the world, said it was made up of “hum-drums and jog-trots.” Humdudgeon means an imaginary illness, “noth- ing . . . but low spirits.”

词汇	humdrum
词源	humdrum. Maybe the drum got in the word just because it rhymed with the monotonous hum, but humdrum does suggest both the monotony of a humming bee or other insect and a monotonous drumbeat. Anyway, humdrum sounds like the boredom it imitates, meaning routine, monotonous, and dull. The term has been around since the early 16th century. Addi- son in The Spectator (1711) told his readers about “The Hum- Drum Club . . . made up of very honest Gentlemen of peaceful Despositions, that used to sit together, smoke their pipes and say nothing till Mid-night.” A later writer, fed up with the hum- drumishness of the world, said it was made up of “hum-drums and jog-trots.” Humdudgeon means an imaginary illness, “noth- ing . . . but low spirits.”
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