英语词汇pot luck的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pot luck. No sirloins or barons of beef for peasants in the Middle Ages. Mostly their dinners came from the great iron pots simmering over their fires into which leftovers were tossed from day to day. Often they didn’t know exactly what they were having for dinner, so when they asked a visitor to take pot luck with them they weren’t trying to put him off. It was a matter of luck—what was in the pot and whether there would be enough of it to go around. The expression is first recorded in 1592 and came to mean “plain fare,” nothing fancy, what we usually have, like the French pot-au-feu (“fire pot”), the ordinary family din- ner. In Ireland the pot of hospitality always hung over the open fire ready to be dipped into by any unexpected visitor. People who offer visitors pot luck today, however, often wind up pre- paring an impromptu banquet for their guests.

词汇	pot luck
词源	pot luck. No sirloins or barons of beef for peasants in the Middle Ages. Mostly their dinners came from the great iron pots simmering over their fires into which leftovers were tossed from day to day. Often they didn’t know exactly what they were having for dinner, so when they asked a visitor to take pot luck with them they weren’t trying to put him off. It was a matter of luck—what was in the pot and whether there would be enough of it to go around. The expression is first recorded in 1592 and came to mean “plain fare,” nothing fancy, what we usually have, like the French pot-au-feu (“fire pot”), the ordinary family din- ner. In Ireland the pot of hospitality always hung over the open fire ready to be dipped into by any unexpected visitor. People who offer visitors pot luck today, however, often wind up pre- paring an impromptu banquet for their guests.
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