英语词汇anecdote的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

anecdote; anecdotage. We owe the word anecdote to Justini- an, Byzantine emperor from a.d. 527 to 565, who wrote a book of brief tales about life in his court. These true stories were sa- tirical, scandalous, and sometimes off-color. Justinian—better known for the Justinian legal code—probably didn’t intend them for publication, but they were published by Procopius, a secretary to one of Justinian’s generals, as a supplement to his history of the times. Procopius entitled the book Anekdota, a Greek word meaning “unpublished, secret.” The title of the book later became the term anecdote, meaning a brief factual story like the ones Anekdota contained. Anecdotage, “the state of being advanced in age and strongly inclined to tell reminis- cent anecdotes,” is probably a happy coinage of John Wilkes in about 1835.

词汇	anecdote
词源	anecdote; anecdotage. We owe the word anecdote to Justini- an, Byzantine emperor from a.d. 527 to 565, who wrote a book of brief tales about life in his court. These true stories were sa- tirical, scandalous, and sometimes off-color. Justinian—better known for the Justinian legal code—probably didn’t intend them for publication, but they were published by Procopius, a secretary to one of Justinian’s generals, as a supplement to his history of the times. Procopius entitled the book Anekdota, a Greek word meaning “unpublished, secret.” The title of the book later became the term anecdote, meaning a brief factual story like the ones Anekdota contained. Anecdotage, “the state of being advanced in age and strongly inclined to tell reminis- cent anecdotes,” is probably a happy coinage of John Wilkes in about 1835.
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