英语词汇joe miller的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Joe Miller. The English comic actor and barfly Joseph or Jo- sias Miller (1684–1738), a favorite at the Drury Lane Theatre in parts such as Hamlet’s first gravedigger, was an illiterate; he re- portedly married his wife only to have someone to read his parts to him. When Miller died leaving his family in poverty, his friend playwright John Mottley gathered a collection of jokes attributed to Miller—and there were many, either because he was famed for his wit, or because it was something of a joke to credit this “grave and taciturn” actor with any joke making its rounds of the pubs. The proceeds of the 72-page book went to Miller’s family, and being the only joke book extant for many years it went into numerous editions over the next two centu- ries. Because the jokes were widely quoted and imitated on the stage so long, any stale joke came to be called a Joe Miller.

词汇	joe miller
词源	Joe Miller. The English comic actor and barfly Joseph or Jo- sias Miller (1684–1738), a favorite at the Drury Lane Theatre in parts such as Hamlet’s first gravedigger, was an illiterate; he re- portedly married his wife only to have someone to read his parts to him. When Miller died leaving his family in poverty, his friend playwright John Mottley gathered a collection of jokes attributed to Miller—and there were many, either because he was famed for his wit, or because it was something of a joke to credit this “grave and taciturn” actor with any joke making its rounds of the pubs. The proceeds of the 72-page book went to Miller’s family, and being the only joke book extant for many years it went into numerous editions over the next two centu- ries. Because the jokes were widely quoted and imitated on the stage so long, any stale joke came to be called a Joe Miller.
随便看	to the bitter end to the manner born to the manor born to tie one on touch all bases touch and go touch-me-not touch off touch of the holy bone touché tougher than a 30-cent steak tough guys don’t dance tough it out tourette-s syndrome tourista tournedos tournedos à la rossini to walk the boards towering rage etc toxic toxin toyota tradattore traditore trademarks and generic terms trade rat