英语词汇rainbow chaser的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rainbow chaser. Ancient legend, its source unknown, had it that a pot brimming with gold was waiting to be found if a per- son dug at the exact spot where a rainbow touched the ground. Anyone who daydreams, who is a visionary, who puts nothing aside for a rainy day, who chases that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is called a “rainbow chaser.” The term, in turn, in- spired the song “Over the Rainbow” by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg that Judy Garland immortalized in The Wizard of Oz (1932), as well as the song “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” whose title has become a popular phrase itself.

词汇	rainbow chaser
词源	rainbow chaser. Ancient legend, its source unknown, had it that a pot brimming with gold was waiting to be found if a per- son dug at the exact spot where a rainbow touched the ground. Anyone who daydreams, who is a visionary, who puts nothing aside for a rainy day, who chases that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is called a “rainbow chaser.” The term, in turn, in- spired the song “Over the Rainbow” by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg that Judy Garland immortalized in The Wizard of Oz (1932), as well as the song “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” whose title has become a popular phrase itself.
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