英语词汇make one-s mouth water的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make one’s mouth water. In his The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India (1555) historian Richard Eden wrote: “These Craftie foxes . . . espying their enemies afarre of, be- ganne to swalowe theyr spittle as their moths watered for greediness of theyr pray.” No one knows who invented the phrase to make one’s mouth water, “to salivate in anticipation, to look forward to something eagerly,” yet it is interesting that this first known use of the expression had reference not to any gourmet food as we know it today but to human meat that West Indian cannibals spotted in the distance.

词汇	make one-s mouth water
词源	make one’s mouth water. In his The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India (1555) historian Richard Eden wrote: “These Craftie foxes . . . espying their enemies afarre of, be- ganne to swalowe theyr spittle as their moths watered for greediness of theyr pray.” No one knows who invented the phrase to make one’s mouth water, “to salivate in anticipation, to look forward to something eagerly,” yet it is interesting that this first known use of the expression had reference not to any gourmet food as we know it today but to human meat that West Indian cannibals spotted in the distance.
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