Jack Robinson的词源
英文词源
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- apocryphal
- apocryphal: [16] Apocryphal is a ‘secondgeneration’ adjective; the original adjective form in English was apocrypha (‘The writing is apocrypha when the author thereof is unknown’, John de Trevisa 1387). This came, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek apókruphos ‘hidden’, a derivative of the compound verb apokrúptein ‘hide away’, which was formed from the prefix apo- ‘away, off’ and the verb krúptein ‘hide’ (source of English crypt and cryptic).
It was applied as a noun to writings in general that were of unknown authorship, and in the 16th century came to be used specifically as the collective term for the uncanonical books of the Old Testament. It was perhaps confusion between the adjectival and nominal roles of apocrypha that led to the formation of the new adjective apocryphal towards the end of the 16th century.
=> crypt, cryptic
中文词源
常见于习语before you can say Jack Robinson,眨眼工夫。多种民间传说的合成体，一种说法是1660年至1679年，伦敦塔的监斩官是一个叫做Sir John Robinson的人，其监斩犯人时刀斧手速度非常迅速，在你还没拿得及喊刀下留人的时候，犯人就人头落地，因此得名，同时，John变成Jack,使这个词更有穿透力。
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