英语词汇cod的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cod; you can’t cod me. Experts have suggested that cod might derive from an old Danish word for “bag” (because it was said to be a “bag fish,” in reference to its shape), but its origin must be marked unknown due to lack of evidence, even though the word has been with us at least since the 14th century. The North Atlantic cod (Gadus morrhua), reaching a length of up to three feet and a weight of up to 50 pounds, has long been one of the most important fish of commerce (see codfish aris- tocracy). It is called the sacred cod because it is said to be the fish that Christ multiplied and fed to the multitude. According to one early-19th-century writer: “Even today the marks of His thumbs and forefingers are plainly visible on the codfish. His Satanic majesty stood by and said he, too, could multiply fish and feed multitudes. Reaching for one of the fish it wriggled and slid down his red-hot fingers, burning two black stripes down its side and thus clearly differentiating the haddock from the sacred cod. These markings, in actual practice, do distin- guish one fish from another.” You can’t cod me means “You can’t get a rise out of me, you won’t make me rise to the bait like a codfish.”

词汇	cod
词源	cod; you can’t cod me. Experts have suggested that cod might derive from an old Danish word for “bag” (because it was said to be a “bag fish,” in reference to its shape), but its origin must be marked unknown due to lack of evidence, even though the word has been with us at least since the 14th century. The North Atlantic cod (Gadus morrhua), reaching a length of up to three feet and a weight of up to 50 pounds, has long been one of the most important fish of commerce (see codfish aris- tocracy). It is called the sacred cod because it is said to be the fish that Christ multiplied and fed to the multitude. According to one early-19th-century writer: “Even today the marks of His thumbs and forefingers are plainly visible on the codfish. His Satanic majesty stood by and said he, too, could multiply fish and feed multitudes. Reaching for one of the fish it wriggled and slid down his red-hot fingers, burning two black stripes down its side and thus clearly differentiating the haddock from the sacred cod. These markings, in actual practice, do distin- guish one fish from another.” You can’t cod me means “You can’t get a rise out of me, you won’t make me rise to the bait like a codfish.”
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