英语词汇comparisons are odious的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

comparisons are odious. The correct word in the proverb is odious, not odorous, and the prolific poet and monk John Lydgate was the first to put the idea on paper, in 1430: “Odyous of olde have been comparisons,/And of comparisons engen- dyrd is haterede.” Cervantes, Donne, Swift, and Hazlitt are other great writers who used the proverb, and Shakespeare had Dog- berry give his variation on the expression, comparisons are odorous, in Much Ado About Nothing. Lydgate’s version was printed some 40 years before that of John Fortescue, to whom Bartlett’s credits the phrase.

词汇	comparisons are odious
词源	comparisons are odious. The correct word in the proverb is odious, not odorous, and the prolific poet and monk John Lydgate was the first to put the idea on paper, in 1430: “Odyous of olde have been comparisons,/And of comparisons engen- dyrd is haterede.” Cervantes, Donne, Swift, and Hazlitt are other great writers who used the proverb, and Shakespeare had Dog- berry give his variation on the expression, comparisons are odorous, in Much Ado About Nothing. Lydgate’s version was printed some 40 years before that of John Fortescue, to whom Bartlett’s credits the phrase.
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