Mysteries of vernacular: Gorgeous - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

字源探秘：Gorgeous - Jessica Oreck 与 Rachael Teel

翻译人员: Bighead Ge 校对人员: Zhiting Chen

Mysteries of vernacular:

字源探秘：

Gorgeous,

【Gorgeous】

beautiful or very attractive.

表示 美丽 或者极具吸引力

The source of the word gorgeous

Gorgeous 一词的来源

can be found in the Latin word, gurges,

可以追溯到 拉丁文【 Gurges 】

used by the Romans to describe

罗马人曾用它来描述

a whirling, swirling whirlpool.

旋转的漩涡

Thanks to the aquatic phenomenon's cylindrical shape

由于水象中的圆柱形状

and gurgling form,

和流水潺潺的样子

gurges also came to mean throat.

Gurges也有喉咙的意思

By the time gurges reached England in the 14th century,

Gurges在14世纪传播到英格兰的时候

it had been altered to gorge.

它被改写成Gorge

This, to the English, seemed like an appropriate way

在英语中，这个隐喻衍生词

to describe a steep and rocky ravine,

可是适当地用来描述

a metaphorical extension of the words

陡峭的岩石峡谷

referenced to the throat.

用来指咽喉要地

The French, however, transformed gorge into gorgias

然后法国人讲Gorge改成Gorgias

and used it to describe

用它来形容

one of the most fashionable trends

中世纪最流行的

of the Middle Ages,

趋势之一——头巾

also known as a wimple.

这也被称为Wimple

This popular article of clothing

这种流行的配件

revealed only the madame's visage,

只露出女子的容颜

covering her shoulders,

而遮盖了她的肩膀、

head,

头

and, of course, her throat .

当然，还有她的喉咙

A stylish and intricate gorgias

一件时尚的、精致的头巾(Gorgias)

was so telling of class and affluence

相当程度上，能反映阶级及富裕程度

that the word soon came to mean

于是这个词很快被用来

fond of dress and elegant.

代表对优雅时尚的喜爱

This newly fashioned adjective

Gorgayse,这个新的流行开来的形容词

voyaged into Middle English as gorgayse,

辗转来到了中世纪的英语世界中

where it was fully anglicized as gorgeous.

在那里，它以Gorgeous一样被充分强调

自此，它就被人们用来形容

Since then, it has been linked to all things

of exceptionally graceful allure.

所有绝丽华美的迷人物件了