英语词汇i cannot tell a lie pa的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

I cannot tell a lie (Pa). The folktale of George Washington cutting down the cherry tree and admitting it to his father (“I cannot tell a lie, Pa”) is one of the most persistent in American history. It is first recorded in the Reverend Mason L. Weems’s Life of Washington (1800), told to him by an old lady who had spent much time with the family. No one has ever disproved this story, though there is some evidence that it was current as a country tale before Parson Weems printed it. Weems’s book went through over 40 editions, and millions of Americans were raised on the story, including Abraham Lincoln, who borrowed a copy of the book, and when it was damaged by a sudden rain had to work three days to pay its owner for it. All we can say with certainty is that like most folklore the tale was exaggerated over the years: a tree stripped of bark becoming the chopped- down tree, “I can’t tell a lie, Pa,” becoming “Father, I cannot tell a lie.”

词汇	i cannot tell a lie pa
词源	I cannot tell a lie (Pa). The folktale of George Washington cutting down the cherry tree and admitting it to his father (“I cannot tell a lie, Pa”) is one of the most persistent in American history. It is first recorded in the Reverend Mason L. Weems’s Life of Washington (1800), told to him by an old lady who had spent much time with the family. No one has ever disproved this story, though there is some evidence that it was current as a country tale before Parson Weems printed it. Weems’s book went through over 40 editions, and millions of Americans were raised on the story, including Abraham Lincoln, who borrowed a copy of the book, and when it was damaged by a sudden rain had to work three days to pay its owner for it. All we can say with certainty is that like most folklore the tale was exaggerated over the years: a tree stripped of bark becoming the chopped- down tree, “I can’t tell a lie, Pa,” becoming “Father, I cannot tell a lie.”
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