英语词汇peter boat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

peter boat. Every Peter ever born derives his given name from St. Peter, Peter being the name Christ gave the “Prince of the Apostles,” this apparently the first time the name was ever used. Peter was a fisherman of Galilee, who denied knowing Christ three times during His trial, but later repented. Tradi- tion tells us that he was crucified in a.d. 67, head down at his request because he said he was not worthy to suffer the same death as Jesus, and his tomb is under the high altar of St. Peter’s in Rome. Many words and expressions derive from Peter’s name: Eric Partridge devotes a page or so to them in his Dic- tionary of Slang. The Patron saint of fishermen and many other occupations connected with the sea gives us the standard En- glish peterman for a fisherman and peter boat for a fishing boat with stem and stern alike. Stormy petrels also bear Peter’s name, because the birds seem to be patting the waves with one foot and then the other in stormy weather, as though they were walking on water. Actually they are flying close to the waves in search of surface-swimming food like small shrimp, but the birds reminded sailors of St. Peter walking upon the Lake of Gennersareth to join Jesus (Matt. 14:29). They were thus named peterels, a diminutive of the English Peter, in honor of the apos- tle and this came to be petrel in time. All petrels are regarded as the protectors of sailors and the harbingers of approaching storms. It is considered bad luck to kill one, for the birds were long thought to be the souls of drowned men; whenever one died, sailors believed a crew member would soon die to take its place.

词汇	peter boat
词源	peter boat. Every Peter ever born derives his given name from St. Peter, Peter being the name Christ gave the “Prince of the Apostles,” this apparently the first time the name was ever used. Peter was a fisherman of Galilee, who denied knowing Christ three times during His trial, but later repented. Tradi- tion tells us that he was crucified in a.d. 67, head down at his request because he said he was not worthy to suffer the same death as Jesus, and his tomb is under the high altar of St. Peter’s in Rome. Many words and expressions derive from Peter’s name: Eric Partridge devotes a page or so to them in his Dic- tionary of Slang. The Patron saint of fishermen and many other occupations connected with the sea gives us the standard En- glish peterman for a fisherman and peter boat for a fishing boat with stem and stern alike. Stormy petrels also bear Peter’s name, because the birds seem to be patting the waves with one foot and then the other in stormy weather, as though they were walking on water. Actually they are flying close to the waves in search of surface-swimming food like small shrimp, but the birds reminded sailors of St. Peter walking upon the Lake of Gennersareth to join Jesus (Matt. 14:29). They were thus named peterels, a diminutive of the English Peter, in honor of the apos- tle and this came to be petrel in time. All petrels are regarded as the protectors of sailors and the harbingers of approaching storms. It is considered bad luck to kill one, for the birds were long thought to be the souls of drowned men; whenever one died, sailors believed a crew member would soon die to take its place.
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