minstrel

英 ['m?nstr(?)l] 美['m?nstr?l]

低頻詞暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?minstrels;

minstrel 游方藝人

來自拉丁語minister,仆人，王室隨從，在古法語時期引申詞義小丑，弄臣，后用于指歌手，樂伎，游吟詩人等。

minstrel: minstrel: [13] Originally minstrel, like its close relative minister, denoted a ‘servant’. Its musical associations are a comparatively recent development. It goes back ultimately to late Latin ministeriālis ‘official’, a derivative of Latin ministerium (source of English ministry). Old French took it over as menestral, and it was here that a gradual specialization in meaning took place, from ‘servant’ via ‘entertainer’ to ‘singer’.
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minstrel (n.): early 13c., from Old French menestrel "entertainer, poet, musician; servant, workman; good-for-nothing, rogue," from Medieval Latin ministralis "servant, jester, singer," from Late Latin ministerialem (nominative ministerialis) "imperial household officer, one having an official duty," from ministerialis (adj.) "ministerial," from Latin ministerium (see ministry). The connecting notion is via the jester, etc., as a court position.

Specific sense of "musician" developed in Old French, but in English until 16c. the word was used of anyone (singers, storytellers, jugglers, buffoons) whose profession was to entertain patrons. Only in 18c. was the word limited, in a historical sense, to "medieval singer of heroic or lyric poetry who accompanied himself on a stringed instrument." Reference to blackface music acts in U.S. is from 1843.

2. A strong love has sprung up between the minstrel and the king.: 于是吟游詩人與國王之間就產(chǎn)生了深厚的感情.

4. The first of all the negro minstrel shows came to town, and made a sensation.: 一流的黑人演奏隊(duì)來到了這個小鎮(zhèn), 引起了轟動.

5. The minstrel had been to many places before he came here.: 在來到這里之前,這個吟游詩人已經(jīng)去過很多地方.