英语词汇daffodil的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

daffodil. No one knows why people began to call the flower asphodel, which carpeted Elysium, an affodill, in the 15th cen- tury. But the mispronunciation stuck and eventually affodill was corrupted further to daffodil, which remains the flower’s name today. The best explanation, according to the O.E.D., is that the change was “due to childish or playful distortions, as in Ted for Edward or tante for aunt . . .” Daffodil and narcissus, though there are differences between them, are often used in- terchangeably for daffodil. The narcissus takes its name from the mythological youth who was so enamored of his own re- flection that after long gazing at it he was changed into the flower. The “dainty daffodil,” the “lamp of beauty,” is perhaps En- glish lyric poetry’s favorite flower next to roses and rosebuds, from Herrick’s “Fair daffodils, we weep to see/You haste away so soon”; to Wordsworth’s host “of golden daffodils;/Beside the lake, beneath the trees,/Fluttering and dancing in the breeze . . . /Continuous as the stars that shine . . . /Tossing their heads in sprightly dance . . .” See also narcissus.

词汇	daffodil
词源	daffodil. No one knows why people began to call the flower asphodel, which carpeted Elysium, an affodill, in the 15th cen- tury. But the mispronunciation stuck and eventually affodill was corrupted further to daffodil, which remains the flower’s name today. The best explanation, according to the O.E.D., is that the change was “due to childish or playful distortions, as in Ted for Edward or tante for aunt . . .” Daffodil and narcissus, though there are differences between them, are often used in- terchangeably for daffodil. The narcissus takes its name from the mythological youth who was so enamored of his own re- flection that after long gazing at it he was changed into the flower. The “dainty daffodil,” the “lamp of beauty,” is perhaps En- glish lyric poetry’s favorite flower next to roses and rosebuds, from Herrick’s “Fair daffodils, we weep to see/You haste away so soon”; to Wordsworth’s host “of golden daffodils;/Beside the lake, beneath the trees,/Fluttering and dancing in the breeze . . . /Continuous as the stars that shine . . . /Tossing their heads in sprightly dance . . .” See also narcissus.
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