英语词汇chutzpa的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

chutzpa. Chutzpa, or chutzpah, derives from a Hebrew word meaning “insolence, audacity.” Signifying impudence, gall, brazen nerve, incredible cheek, and unmitigated audacity in Yiddish and in American slang, it more often today indicates an admirable quality in a person—guts bordering on the hero- ic. Leo Rosten gives the classic definition of chutzpa in The Joys of Yiddish: “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.” (No one knows if this ever happened, but a 19th-century anecdote does mention such a man.)

词汇	chutzpa
词源	chutzpa. Chutzpa, or chutzpah, derives from a Hebrew word meaning “insolence, audacity.” Signifying impudence, gall, brazen nerve, incredible cheek, and unmitigated audacity in Yiddish and in American slang, it more often today indicates an admirable quality in a person—guts bordering on the hero- ic. Leo Rosten gives the classic definition of chutzpa in The Joys of Yiddish: “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.” (No one knows if this ever happened, but a 19th-century anecdote does mention such a man.)
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