英语词汇make a mountain out of a molehill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make a mountain out of a molehill. In his “Ode to a Fly” the ancient Greek satirist Lucian conveyed this same idea, “to give something much greater importance than it deserves.” His “to make an elephant out of a fly” remains a French and German proverb to this day, but for some unknown reason the expression never passed directly into English. Instead, the ele- phant became a “mountain” and the fly a “molehill.” Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (1570) first recorded “makeying mountaines of Molehils.”

词汇	make a mountain out of a molehill
词源	make a mountain out of a molehill. In his “Ode to a Fly” the ancient Greek satirist Lucian conveyed this same idea, “to give something much greater importance than it deserves.” His “to make an elephant out of a fly” remains a French and German proverb to this day, but for some unknown reason the expression never passed directly into English. Instead, the ele- phant became a “mountain” and the fly a “molehill.” Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (1570) first recorded “makeying mountaines of Molehils.”
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