英语词汇publisher的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

publisher. The first recorded use of publisher for “one whose business is the issuing of books, magazines, etc.” dates back to 1740 in England. The first publishers, however, may have been Egyptian undertakers, who put into each burial place a Book of the Dead, which was a guide to the afterlife. About 550 pub- lishers in the United States bring out over 50,000 new titles every year, but a nonprofit publisher, the U.S. Government Printing Office, is the largest publisher in the country, and in the world for that matter, mailing out more than 150 million items every year and publishing 6,000 new titles annually. Publishers have of course been the butt of many writers’ jokes. Said James M. Barrie in an 1896 speech: “Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publish- er. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said goodbye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say goodbye. He said instead, “I’ll see you again.” In his Memoirs of a Publisher, F. N. Doubleday, dubbed Effendi by Kipling, relates Mark Twain’s “perfect recipe” for making a modern publisher: “Take an idiot man from a lunatic asylum and marry him to an idiot woman, and the fourth generation of this connection should be a good publisher from the Amer- ican point of view.” Mark Twain, of course, later became a publisher himself.

词汇	publisher
词源	publisher. The first recorded use of publisher for “one whose business is the issuing of books, magazines, etc.” dates back to 1740 in England. The first publishers, however, may have been Egyptian undertakers, who put into each burial place a Book of the Dead, which was a guide to the afterlife. About 550 pub- lishers in the United States bring out over 50,000 new titles every year, but a nonprofit publisher, the U.S. Government Printing Office, is the largest publisher in the country, and in the world for that matter, mailing out more than 150 million items every year and publishing 6,000 new titles annually. Publishers have of course been the butt of many writers’ jokes. Said James M. Barrie in an 1896 speech: “Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publish- er. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said goodbye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say goodbye. He said instead, “I’ll see you again.” In his Memoirs of a Publisher, F. N. Doubleday, dubbed Effendi by Kipling, relates Mark Twain’s “perfect recipe” for making a modern publisher: “Take an idiot man from a lunatic asylum and marry him to an idiot woman, and the fourth generation of this connection should be a good publisher from the Amer- ican point of view.” Mark Twain, of course, later became a publisher himself.
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