jackanapes自大而鲁莽的人

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

Applied to any pretentious upstart who apes his betters，the British word jackanapes probably comes from the nickname of William de la Pole，duke of Suffolk．Jack was a common name for a tame male ape in England at the time(attached to the word，as it was to jackrabbit，jackass，and others)，and Suffolk’s coat of arms bore the clog and chain of a trained monkey．When，in 1450，the duke was arrested and beheaded at sea off Dover for alleged treason against Henry Ⅵ，de la Pole was derisively styled“the Ape—clogge”and later won the nickname Jack Napes，or Jacknapes．The ending might mean“of Naples，”the source of apes brought to England in the early fifteenth century，but there is little doubt that the word earned its popularity and present meaning through Suffolk’s nickname，which was even recorded in a satirical song of the day．

用来指自命不凡的、总是模仿上司样子的人。该英国词可能源于萨福克第一公爵William de la Pole(1396－1450)的绰号。Jack曾是英格兰被驯服的雄猿的普通名称，它可附在词的前面作前缀，如iackrabbit，jackass等。萨福克的徽章印有驯猿的坠子和链条。1450年公爵被捕，并被指控背叛亨利六世而在多佛尔海边斩首。他被戏称为“猿的坠子”，后又有JackNapes或Jacknapes的诨名。词尾可能意为“那不勒斯的”，而那不勒斯是15世纪初被带到英格兰的猿的出生地。无疑，该词是由于萨福克的绰号而流行开来，并获得现在的词义。它甚至还写进了当时的一首讽刺歌曲中。