blindfold的词源
英文词源
- blindfold
- blindfold: [16] The original term for covering someone’s eyes with a bandage was blindfell [OE], which survived until the 16th century. This meant literally ‘strike someone blind’, the second element being the fell of ‘felling trees’. It appears that its past form, blindfelled, came to be mistaken for a present form, and this, together with some perceived connection with fold (presumably the ‘folding’ of the bandage round somebody’s head), conspired to produce the new verb blindfold.
- blindfold (v.)
- 1520s, alteration, by similarity to fold, of blindfelled (early 14c.), past participle of blindfellan "blindfold, cover the eyes (with a bandage, etc.)," also "to strike blind" (c. 1200), from Old English (ge)blindfellian "to strike blind," from blind (adj.) + Anglian gefeollan "to strike down," as in to fell a tree (see fell (v.)). Related: Blindfolded; blindfolding.
- blindfold (n.)
- 1880, from blindfold (v.).
中文词源
改写自古英语blindfellen。blind, 瞎。fell, 砍伐，击倒。原指打瞎，后改成fold, 折叠，指眼罩。
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blindfold和fold没有丝毫关系，在中世纪英语中原作blindfellen／blindfelden.，由blind（瞎的）加fellen‘to fell’（击倒）构成，字面义为to strike someone blind（打瞎子）。那么它后来是如何演变为blindfold的呢？英国有一古老的捉迷藏游戏，叫blindman's buff／bluff。一人蒙住双眼摸索着去捉在他周围来回躲闪的人，捉住后辨认所捉的人是谁。这一游戏汉语有时译作“摸瞎子”，蒙跟的布通常是一块折叠起来的(folded)手帕。因此人们常将btindfellen的过去分词形式blindfeld／blindfelled和fold（折叠）一词相联系，久而久之就渐渐演化为blindfold这一形式，既可用作形容词，表示“被蒙住眼睛的”，也可用作动词，表示“蒙住…的服睛”。
