英语词汇vamp的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

vamp. The name of a bookseller in Samuel Foote’s play The Author (1757) became synonymous with an avaricious pub- lisher, because the character Vamp held that binding was more important than the contents of a book: “Books are like women; to strike they must be well-dressed. Fine feathers make fine birds. A good paper, and elegant type, a handsome motto, and a catching title, have driven many a dull treatise through three editions.” Vamp was later used as the name of a critic in Tho- mas Peacock’s novel Melincourt (1817) and is supposed to be a caricature of the bitter author, editor, and critic William Gif- ford. Peacock also satirized Gifford, Coleridge (Mr. Mystic), Malthus (Mr. Fox), and Wordsworth (Mr. Paperstamp) in his book. Vamp is more commonly used today to mean an unscru- pulous woman of seductive charm. Both terms are probably short for vampire.

词汇	vamp
词源	vamp. The name of a bookseller in Samuel Foote’s play The Author (1757) became synonymous with an avaricious pub- lisher, because the character Vamp held that binding was more important than the contents of a book: “Books are like women; to strike they must be well-dressed. Fine feathers make fine birds. A good paper, and elegant type, a handsome motto, and a catching title, have driven many a dull treatise through three editions.” Vamp was later used as the name of a critic in Tho- mas Peacock’s novel Melincourt (1817) and is supposed to be a caricature of the bitter author, editor, and critic William Gif- ford. Peacock also satirized Gifford, Coleridge (Mr. Mystic), Malthus (Mr. Fox), and Wordsworth (Mr. Paperstamp) in his book. Vamp is more commonly used today to mean an unscru- pulous woman of seductive charm. Both terms are probably short for vampire.
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