“绯闻”的由来

The Origin of "Affair"

本文从史的角度考察了"绯闻"的产生途径,"绯"最初是指一种浅红色的丝织品,之后又被专用作颜色词,后来由于"红"的用法的多样化,"绯"所代表的颜色逐渐被"粉红"、"桃红"等取代,使用频率大大降低。但由于"绯"和"桃色"所表示的颜色均和少女的面色相似,所以也就带有了和女性相关的联想义,进而被用来指称一类通常有女性参与的新闻事件即"桃色新闻"或"绯闻"。此外,因为"绯闻"比"桃色新闻"简省,所以现在多用"绯闻"。

The essay has investigated the origin of affair historically. Initially,＂ fei ＂, pointed to a kind of light red silk fabric, afterwards it was used to be a special colour word. Because of the diversification of ＂red＂,＂ fei ＂was instead by ＂pink＂and＂peachblow＂, so the usage of ＂ fei ＂ reduced greatly. But since the colour expressed by ＂ fei ＂ and ＂peach＂ blow＂ is similar to the eolour of young girls, so they were related to the female and were used to refer to ＂news of illicit love ＂ or ＂an affair ＂ which reports a kind of news having female participation generally. Because ＂affair ＂ is simpler than ＂news of illicit love ＂,so ＂affair ＂ is used more now.