as easy as pie的词源是什么? 英语
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【答案】 Meaning
Very easy.我想你意思一定知道是很简单的.
Origin
There are many similes in English that have the form 'as X as Y'.These almost always highlight some property - X,and give an example of something that is well-known to display that property - Y.For example,'as white as snow','as dead as a dodo' and,risking a group slander action from our noble friends,'as drunk as a lord'.
How though,are pies thought to be easy?They aren't especially easy to make; I know,I've tried it.The easiness es with the eating.At least,that was the view in 19th century America,where this phrase was coined.There are various mid 19th century US citations that,whilst not using 'as easy as pie' verbatim,do point to 'pie' being used to denote pleasantry and ease.'Pie' in this sense is archetypally American,as American as apple pie in fact.The usage first es in the phrase 'as nice as pie',as found here in Which:Right or Left?in 1855:
For nearly a week afterwards,the domestics observed significantly to each other,that Miss Isabella was as 'nice as pie!'
Mark Twain frequently used just 'pie' to mean pleasant or acmodating:In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,1884,
You're always as polite as pie to them.
So he took him to his own house,and dressed him up clean and nice,...and was just old pie to him,so to speak.
Pie was also used at that time for something that was easy to acplish.For example,The US magazine Sporting Life,May 1886:
As for stealing second and third,it's like eating pie.
也就是说,做pie是不简单的.但是实际上pie又能给人是欢乐,轻松的意思,所以反而as easy as pie就变成了说是事情很简单的意思.
Vicky