英语词汇a jonah的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

a Jonah. A Jonah means a bringer of bad luck who spoils the plans of others. The phrase is so popular that it has even be- come a verb, as in “Don’t jonah me!” The biblical Jonah sailed to Tarshish instead of preaching against the evils of Nineveh as the Lord bade him. But the Lord sent a mighty storm to punish him for fleeing, so “that the ship was like to be broken,” the frightened sailors aboard deciding that he was an evil influ- ence, a loser, bad luck. “And they said . . . Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah” (Jon. 1:7). After they jettisoned Jonah, calm returned to the seas, but Jonah, of course, was swallowed by a giant fish (possibly a whale) and af- ter three days and nights was “vomited out upon dry land,” whereupon he did what he was supposed to have done in the first place.

词汇	a jonah
词源	a Jonah. A Jonah means a bringer of bad luck who spoils the plans of others. The phrase is so popular that it has even be- come a verb, as in “Don’t jonah me!” The biblical Jonah sailed to Tarshish instead of preaching against the evils of Nineveh as the Lord bade him. But the Lord sent a mighty storm to punish him for fleeing, so “that the ship was like to be broken,” the frightened sailors aboard deciding that he was an evil influ- ence, a loser, bad luck. “And they said . . . Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah” (Jon. 1:7). After they jettisoned Jonah, calm returned to the seas, but Jonah, of course, was swallowed by a giant fish (possibly a whale) and af- ter three days and nights was “vomited out upon dry land,” whereupon he did what he was supposed to have done in the first place.
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