英语词汇utopia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

utopia. Sir Thomas More’s utopia, described in his 1516 book of that name, is probably the most famous of all utopias. More invented the name of his fictional island where every- thing is perfect, using the Greek for “nowhere” (ou, “not,” and topos, “a place”). His book, translated from English into all the chief European languages, gave us the name for any ideal, vi- sionary place. But “Utopia” is only one of a great many utopias invented by writers over the centuries. Among the first of them was Plato’s “Republic,” which he described in The Republic. Other famous utopias include Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun; James Harrington’s Oceana; Thomas Spencer’s Spen- conia; Edward Bellamy’s Boston (in the year 2000); H. G. Wells’s Utopia; Aldous Huxley’s Pala; James Hilton’s Shangri- la; B. F. Skinner’s Walden II; Ernest Callenbach’s Ectopia; Aus- tin Tappan Wright’s Islandia; and Samuel R. Delany’s Triton.

词汇	utopia
词源	utopia. Sir Thomas More’s utopia, described in his 1516 book of that name, is probably the most famous of all utopias. More invented the name of his fictional island where every- thing is perfect, using the Greek for “nowhere” (ou, “not,” and topos, “a place”). His book, translated from English into all the chief European languages, gave us the name for any ideal, vi- sionary place. But “Utopia” is only one of a great many utopias invented by writers over the centuries. Among the first of them was Plato’s “Republic,” which he described in The Republic. Other famous utopias include Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun; James Harrington’s Oceana; Thomas Spencer’s Spen- conia; Edward Bellamy’s Boston (in the year 2000); H. G. Wells’s Utopia; Aldous Huxley’s Pala; James Hilton’s Shangri- la; B. F. Skinner’s Walden II; Ernest Callenbach’s Ectopia; Aus- tin Tappan Wright’s Islandia; and Samuel R. Delany’s Triton.
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