hare

词源记忆法

可能来自PIE*kas,灰色，灰白色，词源同hazy,hoar,canus(拉丁文，灰白的)。后指灰白色的野兔。

习语积累

习语 n. (as) mad as a hatter/a March hare (informal) (of a person 人) 发狂的；非常愚蠢的 mentally ill; very silly 【词源】From the Mad Hatter, a character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Because of the chemicals used in hat-making, workers often suffered from mercury poisoning, which can cause loss of memory and damage to the nervous system. A March hare was called mad because of the strange behaviour of hares during the mating season. 源于刘易斯∙卡罗尔所著《艾丽斯漫游奇境记》一书中的疯狂的帽商（Mad Hatter）这一形象。做帽子用的化学药品经常使工人受汞毒毒害，破坏他们的记忆和神经系统。三月的兔子（March hare）在交配期行为怪异，因而被称为疯狂的兔子。