英语词汇deadpan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

deadpan. Pan has been used since at least the early 19th cen- tury to mean “the face,” possibly because the face is “broad, shallow and often open,” as Webster’s suggests, but just as likely because pan meant “the skull or head” as far back as the early 14th century and was used by Chaucer, among many much- read writers. (The word is still used in brainpan.) Deadpan, a contemporary expression for an expressionless poker face, es- pecially applied to comedians with a dry delivery, is just a com- bination of pan with dead, “unanimated.” It has nothing to do with Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem about the “great dead Pan,” the god of Greek mythology who, legend says, died when Christ was crucified.

词汇	deadpan
词源	deadpan. Pan has been used since at least the early 19th cen- tury to mean “the face,” possibly because the face is “broad, shallow and often open,” as Webster’s suggests, but just as likely because pan meant “the skull or head” as far back as the early 14th century and was used by Chaucer, among many much- read writers. (The word is still used in brainpan.) Deadpan, a contemporary expression for an expressionless poker face, es- pecially applied to comedians with a dry delivery, is just a com- bination of pan with dead, “unanimated.” It has nothing to do with Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem about the “great dead Pan,” the god of Greek mythology who, legend says, died when Christ was crucified.
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