英语词汇tweedledum and tweedledee的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Tweedledum and Tweedledee. A 1725 epigram about the relative merits of the composers Handel and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, or Tweedledum and Tweedledee as the poet called them, went as follows:

Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The epigram, variously attributed to John Byrom, Pope, and Swift, first used the words Tweedledum and Tweedledee, which has since described two people, groups, or things identical in looks, opinions, or certain characteristics. The nicknames, which suggested the contrast between high- and low-pitched musical instruments, were given to German-born English mu- sician George Handel and the musician G. B. Bononcini when a rivalry sprang up between the two while Handel served as di- rector of the Royal Academy of Music. English aristocrats mainly sided with Bononcini, who is little-known today and left no work nearly as popular as Handel’s Messiah. Tweedle- dum and Tweedledee were made more famous as the twins in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1872).

词汇	tweedledum and tweedledee
词源	Tweedledum and Tweedledee. A 1725 epigram about the relative merits of the composers Handel and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, or Tweedledum and Tweedledee as the poet called them, went as follows: Some say compared to Bononcini That mynheer Handel’s but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The epigram, variously attributed to John Byrom, Pope, and Swift, first used the words Tweedledum and Tweedledee, which has since described two people, groups, or things identical in looks, opinions, or certain characteristics. The nicknames, which suggested the contrast between high- and low-pitched musical instruments, were given to German-born English mu- sician George Handel and the musician G. B. Bononcini when a rivalry sprang up between the two while Handel served as di- rector of the Royal Academy of Music. English aristocrats mainly sided with Bononcini, who is little-known today and left no work nearly as popular as Handel’s Messiah. Tweedle- dum and Tweedledee were made more famous as the twins in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1872).
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