英语词汇make the horn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make the horn. The Greek hunter Actaeon came upon Ar- temis bathing and, either because he saw her naked or because he had boasted that he was a better hunter than she, the god- dess of wildlife (she is called Diana in Roman mythology) changed him into a stag and he was torn to pieces by his own hounds. Because he had had horns—at least for a short time— Actaeon’s name became a synonym for a man with an unfaith- ful wife. In fact, to actaeon, now obsolete, was once a verb meaning “to cuckold.” No one really knows why horns are a symbol of cuckoldry, but one guess is that stags, which are of course horned, have their harems taken from them in the rut- ting season by stronger males. At any rate, making the horn— thrusting out a fist with the first and last fingers extended—has been a gesture of contempt, implying a person is a cuckold, since Roman times.

词汇	make the horn
词源	make the horn. The Greek hunter Actaeon came upon Ar- temis bathing and, either because he saw her naked or because he had boasted that he was a better hunter than she, the god- dess of wildlife (she is called Diana in Roman mythology) changed him into a stag and he was torn to pieces by his own hounds. Because he had had horns—at least for a short time— Actaeon’s name became a synonym for a man with an unfaith- ful wife. In fact, to actaeon, now obsolete, was once a verb meaning “to cuckold.” No one really knows why horns are a symbol of cuckoldry, but one guess is that stags, which are of course horned, have their harems taken from them in the rut- ting season by stronger males. At any rate, making the horn— thrusting out a fist with the first and last fingers extended—has been a gesture of contempt, implying a person is a cuckold, since Roman times.
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