英文词源
- bacon
- bacon: [12] Originally, bacon meant literally ‘meat from a pig’s back’. It comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *bakkon, which was related to *bakam, the source of English back. It reached English via Frankish báko and Old French bacon, and at first meant ‘a side of pig meat (fresh or cured)’. Gradually it narrowed down to ‘a side of cured pig meat’ (bringing it into competition with the Old English word flitch, now virtually obsolete), and finally to simply ‘cured pig meat’.
=> back - bacon (n.)
- early 14c., "meat from the back and sides of a pig" (originally either fresh or cured, but especially cured), from Old French bacon, from Proto-Germanic *bakkon "back meat" (cognates: Old High German bahho, Old Dutch baken "bacon"). Slang phrase bring home the bacon first recorded 1908; bacon formerly being the staple meat of the working class.
中文词源
bacon（培根肉）：常用来腌制培根肉的猪后臀肉
英语单词bacon指的是用盐、香料腌制或用烟熏制而成的猪肉，是西式猪肉制品三大品种（火腿、培根、灌肠）之一，其词源与单词back（背、后）相同，本意为“猪的背部、后部的肉”，从拼写上还能看出与back的联系。该词在14世纪之前既可以指熏腌肉，也可以指新鲜肉。后来，由于人们常常用猪的背部和后部的肉来制作培根肉，所以bacon一词的词义缩小了，专指经过腌制或熏制而成的猪肉。英国的两位大哲学家罗杰·培根和弗朗西斯·培根的老祖宗都是制作培根的，故以Bacon作为自己家族的姓氏。
bacon：['beɪk(ə)n] n.培根肉，腌猪肉、熏猪肉
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：bacon 词源，bacon 含义。
bacon：熏肉
back, 后，后腿。-on , 小词后缀。指猪后腿肉。
bacon：熏猪肉
bac词根“背”，和back同源；on为名词后缀，和同后缀单词mutton（羊肉）可以串记。这个词最初指“猪背部的肉”。短语：bring home the bacon（谋生，养家），save one's bacon（免遭麻烦，摆脱困难）。