英语词汇cool as a cucumber的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cool as a cucumber. It took scientists with thermometers un- til 1970 to find out what has been folk knowledge for centuries—that cucumbers are indeed cool, so much so that the inside of a field cucumber on a warm day registers about 20 degrees cooler than the outside air. The belief is ancient, but was first put on paper by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in their play Cupid’s Revenge (1610), when they referred to cer- tain women “as cold as cucumbers.” The metaphor describes anyone self-possessed and unemotional. Cucumber, which de- rives from the Latin cucumir, was considered “bookish” and commonly pronounced cowcumber in England in the early 19th century, the way Sara Gamp said it in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit. Roman emperor Tiberius is said to have enjoyed the “fruits” so much that he ordered them served to him every day, even though they had to be grown in greenhouses out of season.

词汇	cool as a cucumber
词源	cool as a cucumber. It took scientists with thermometers un- til 1970 to find out what has been folk knowledge for centuries—that cucumbers are indeed cool, so much so that the inside of a field cucumber on a warm day registers about 20 degrees cooler than the outside air. The belief is ancient, but was first put on paper by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in their play Cupid’s Revenge (1610), when they referred to cer- tain women “as cold as cucumbers.” The metaphor describes anyone self-possessed and unemotional. Cucumber, which de- rives from the Latin cucumir, was considered “bookish” and commonly pronounced cowcumber in England in the early 19th century, the way Sara Gamp said it in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit. Roman emperor Tiberius is said to have enjoyed the “fruits” so much that he ordered them served to him every day, even though they had to be grown in greenhouses out of season.
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