I don't know if this will put you off your cup of tea but this really is what lexicographers and etymologists speculate about in their working hours.
不知道，这样的解释会不会让您失去品茶的雅兴。不过，它确实是词典编纂者和词源学家们在工作时所思考和揣测的问题。
Modern historians and archeologists often turn to etymologists for assistance and occasionally get some advice from them, but in principle, it is word historians who need help.
现代历史学家和考古学家常常向词源学家求助，偶尔也从他们身上得到一些建议，但大多数情况下是研究单词的历史学家们需要帮助。
Unfortunately, we run into a difficulty here that is not uncommonly faced by etymologists, namely, that no one is precisely sure why this piece of humorous verse was so named.
不幸的是，我们碰到了一个词源学家经常碰到的难题，那就是，没有一个人能确定为什么这种幽默的诗歌这样命名。
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