英语词汇cold blood的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cold blood. Early physiologists believed that the blood actu- ally boiled within the body when a person grew excited and that it grew cold when someone was calm or detached. While the term in hot blood suggested by the belief is no longer heard (hot-blooded is), in cold blood remains as common as it was back in the late 16th century. Generally it is used today to de- scribe a deliberate act of murder, as in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Mankind has always regarded calculated killing in cold blood as something less than human. Trollope summed up the idea in describing one of his characters: “But then Aylmer was a cold-blooded man—more like a fish than a man.”

词汇	cold blood
词源	cold blood. Early physiologists believed that the blood actu- ally boiled within the body when a person grew excited and that it grew cold when someone was calm or detached. While the term in hot blood suggested by the belief is no longer heard (hot-blooded is), in cold blood remains as common as it was back in the late 16th century. Generally it is used today to de- scribe a deliberate act of murder, as in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Mankind has always regarded calculated killing in cold blood as something less than human. Trollope summed up the idea in describing one of his characters: “But then Aylmer was a cold-blooded man—more like a fish than a man.”
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