英语词汇cobbler should stick to his last的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cobbler should stick to his last; ultracrepederian. Alexan- der the Great’s favorite artist, Apelles, corrected his drawing of a man’s sandal latchet in one of his paintings when a cobbler criticized it. But when the shoemaker went on to criticize the way Apelles had drawn the man’s legs, the artist admonished him: Ne sutor ultra crepidam, “The cobbler should stick to his last [the metal foot-model on which shoes are shaped].” Apelles’ words give us not only the familiar expression but the term ul- tracrepederian, meaning “criticism ranging beyond the critic’s range of knowledge.” Its first recorded use is by Hazlitt in an 1819 letter to critic William Gifford, who had savaged Keat’s “Endymion” in the Quarterly Review.

词汇	cobbler should stick to his last
词源	cobbler should stick to his last; ultracrepederian. Alexan- der the Great’s favorite artist, Apelles, corrected his drawing of a man’s sandal latchet in one of his paintings when a cobbler criticized it. But when the shoemaker went on to criticize the way Apelles had drawn the man’s legs, the artist admonished him: Ne sutor ultra crepidam, “The cobbler should stick to his last [the metal foot-model on which shoes are shaped].” Apelles’ words give us not only the familiar expression but the term ul- tracrepederian, meaning “criticism ranging beyond the critic’s range of knowledge.” Its first recorded use is by Hazlitt in an 1819 letter to critic William Gifford, who had savaged Keat’s “Endymion” in the Quarterly Review.
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