好奇心 不只可以殺死貓

更可以殺死愛情

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好奇心殺死貓 出處

最早出現於1589年英國劇作家Ben Johnson所寫的一齣戲中：
Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all,
and a pox on the hangman.
(care在當時的意思為”sorrow”或”worry”)
後來在莎士比亞的戲劇(Much Ado about Nothing無事自擾)中將此話加以發揮：

What, courage man! what though care killed a cat, thou hast
mettle enough in thee to kill care.

這個諺語一直到1898年E. Cobham Brewer 將它收錄到字典中,定義為：

Care killed the Cat. It is said that ”a cat has nine lives,”
yet care would wear them all out.
(字面的解釋為據說貓有九條命,但即使如此擔憂太多仍會把他們累死的)

真正把care改成curiosity是在1909年 O. Henry的一篇短篇小說
Schools and Schools :

Curiosity can do more things than kill a cat; and if emotions,
well recognized as feminine, are inimical to feline life,
then jealousy would soon leave the whole world catless.

詳細更多的訊息請參考以下的網址：

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_killed_the_cat

這句話還有後文：

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
（好奇心殺死貓,但是只要好奇心被滿足就沒事）

詳考網站 http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1405122804933