英语词汇it的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

it. The little workhorse pronoun it derives from the Anglo- Saxon hit, neuter gender of “he.” Though it is used to describe anything sexless, among other things, it also means sex appeal in slang usage. Clara Bow was Hollywood’s It girl, but the first use of it to represent sex appeal was in Rudyard Kipling’s Mrs. Bathurst (1904) when he writes: “Tisn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just It. Some women’ll stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.” The expression be- came very popular in the late 1920s when Clara Bow starred in the 1926 movie version of Elinor Glyn’s novel It. As the It girl Miss Bow was one of a long line of types loved by American men, including the Gibson girl, the Ziegfeld girl, the Vamp (Theda Bara), the flapper, the oomph girl, the sweater girl, the pinup girl, the Playmate, and the Bunny. It may be somewhat euphemistic as well, as it is used in slang as a synonym for a chamber pot and the male and female sexual organs. Calling the unlucky player who does all the work you’re it in a game of tag or hide-and-go-seek dates back to about 1888. In modern slang this it has also become someone who is appointed to do a certain job, usually an undesirable one, in an office or else- where. In Britain and the U.S. it has become shorthand or short tongue for Italian vermouth, as in “I’ll have a gin and it.” See also its.

词汇	it
词源	it. The little workhorse pronoun it derives from the Anglo- Saxon hit, neuter gender of “he.” Though it is used to describe anything sexless, among other things, it also means sex appeal in slang usage. Clara Bow was Hollywood’s It girl, but the first use of it to represent sex appeal was in Rudyard Kipling’s Mrs. Bathurst (1904) when he writes: “Tisn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just It. Some women’ll stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.” The expression be- came very popular in the late 1920s when Clara Bow starred in the 1926 movie version of Elinor Glyn’s novel It. As the It girl Miss Bow was one of a long line of types loved by American men, including the Gibson girl, the Ziegfeld girl, the Vamp (Theda Bara), the flapper, the oomph girl, the sweater girl, the pinup girl, the Playmate, and the Bunny. It may be somewhat euphemistic as well, as it is used in slang as a synonym for a chamber pot and the male and female sexual organs. Calling the unlucky player who does all the work you’re it in a game of tag or hide-and-go-seek dates back to about 1888. In modern slang this it has also become someone who is appointed to do a certain job, usually an undesirable one, in an office or else- where. In Britain and the U.S. it has become shorthand or short tongue for Italian vermouth, as in “I’ll have a gin and it.” See also its.
随便看	notch not dry behind the ears no-tel motel not for love or money nothing in excess nothing is certain but death and taxes nothing like it to keep your ears pink nothing on the ball nothing to fear but fear itself no tickee no washee not in the same league with not just another pretty face notre pierre not right not so hot not the only pebble on the beach not to be sneezed at not to care a straw not to get the bat off one-s shoulder not to know beans not to know beef from bulls’ foot not to know if one is coming or going not to know one-s ass from one-s elbow not tonight josephine not to turn a hair