sour grapes的词源

英文词源

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remember: [14] Latin memor meant ‘mindful’ (it gave English memorial, memory, etc, and went back ultimately to the Indo-European base *men-, *mon- ‘think’, source of a wide range of English vocabulary from comment to mind). From it in the post-classical period was formed the verb rememorārī ‘recall to mind’, which passed into English via Old French remembrer.
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中文词源

sour grapes：酸葡萄心理

《伊索寓言》中，有一篇脍炙人口的故事《狐狸和葡萄》。话说饥饿的狐狸看见一串串晶莹欲滴的葡萄挂满了枝头。它想尝尝，偏偏就是够不着。最后只好走开，并且自己安慰自己说：“反正那些葡萄都没成熟，还是酸的。”

这个故事是警惕人们不要“吃不到葡萄就说葡萄酸”， 所以后来就产生“酸葡萄心理”（sour grapes)这个词汇。

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