Jew

英 [d?u:] 美

TEM8中頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?Jews;

Jew 猶太人

來自古法語giu,來自拉丁語Iudaeum,來自希伯來語yehudah,即Judah.字面意思為頌揚的，贊美的，為雅各布的第四子，猶太人的祖先。

Jew ’s harp 口弦，口簧

harp,豎琴，Jew,可能是來自jaw拼寫訛誤，或因猶太商人將這種樂器賣到英國而得名，或因為一種說法認為Jew使這種樂器帶有神秘感，讓人感覺是一種圣經中的古樂器。

Jew (n.): late 12c. (in plural, giwis), from Anglo-French iuw, Old French giu, from Latin Iudaeum (nominative Iudaeus), from Greek Ioudaios, from Aramaic jehudhai (Hebrew y'hudi) "Jew," from Y'hudah "Judah," literally "celebrated," name of Jacob's fourth son and of the tribe descended from him. Replaced Old English Iudeas "the Jews." Originally, "Hebrew of the kingdom of Judah."

Jews' harp "simple mouth harp" is from 1580s, earlier Jews' trump (1540s); the connection with Jewishness is obscure. Jew-baiting first recorded 1853, in reference to German Judenhetze. In uneducated times, inexplicable ancient artifacts were credited to Jews, based on the biblical chronology of history: such as Jews' money (1570s) "Roman coins found in England." In Greece, after Christianity had erased the memory of classical glory, ruins of pagan temples were called "Jews' castles," and in Cornwall, Jews' houses was the name for the remains of ancient tin-smelting works.
jew (v.): "to cheat, to drive a hard bargain," 1824, from Jew (n.) (compare gyp, welsh, etc.). The campaign to eliminate it in early 20c. was so successful that people began to avoid the noun and adjective, too, and started using Hebrew instead.
Now I'll say 'a Jew' and just the word Jew sounds like a dirty word and people don't know whether to laugh or not. [Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)]

2. Shylock, the Jew, lived at Venice: he was an usurer.: 猶太人夏洛克住在威尼斯,他是個放印子錢的人.

3. He was a jounalist, a brilliant intellectual, and a Jew.: 他是記者, 一位有才能的知識分子, 他是個猶太人.

4. This Italian Jew situation called for a persuasive diplomat.: 這個意大利猶太人的問題需要有個會哄的外交家來處理.

5. Augie, like his author, is a Jew, born among the immigrant poor.: 奧吉和他的塑造者一樣, 是猶太人, 出身于窮苦的移民家庭.