英语词汇cocktail的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cocktail. There are well over 50 theories as to the word cock- tail’s origin, H. L. Mencken alone presenting seven plausible ones in his American Language. These include a derivation from the French coquetier, “an egg cup,” in which the drink was supposedly first served in 1800; from coquetel, “a mixed drink of the French Revolution period”; from the English cock-ale, “fed to fighting cocks”; from cocktailings, “the last of several liq- uors mixed together”; and from a toast to that cock that after a cockfight had the most feathers left in its tail. Just as reliable as any of these guesses is the old folktale that Aztec King Axolotl VIII’s daughter Octel or Xochitl concocted the first cocktail; or, in another version, that an Aztec noble sent his emperor a drink made of cactus juice by his daughter, the emperor enjoy- ing it so much that he married the girl and called the drink by her name—again Octel or Xochitl. According to this story, General Scott’s soldiers are supposed to have brought the drink back to America centuries later. Suffice it to say that the origin of the word, first printed in 1806, is really unknown.

词汇	cocktail
词源	cocktail. There are well over 50 theories as to the word cock- tail’s origin, H. L. Mencken alone presenting seven plausible ones in his American Language. These include a derivation from the French coquetier, “an egg cup,” in which the drink was supposedly first served in 1800; from coquetel, “a mixed drink of the French Revolution period”; from the English cock-ale, “fed to fighting cocks”; from cocktailings, “the last of several liq- uors mixed together”; and from a toast to that cock that after a cockfight had the most feathers left in its tail. Just as reliable as any of these guesses is the old folktale that Aztec King Axolotl VIII’s daughter Octel or Xochitl concocted the first cocktail; or, in another version, that an Aztec noble sent his emperor a drink made of cactus juice by his daughter, the emperor enjoy- ing it so much that he married the girl and called the drink by her name—again Octel or Xochitl. According to this story, General Scott’s soldiers are supposed to have brought the drink back to America centuries later. Suffice it to say that the origin of the word, first printed in 1806, is really unknown.
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