英语词汇diogenes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Diogenes; Diogenes crab; Diogenic. He is said to have walked the streets of Athens with a lantern in broad daylight searching for an honest man, thus expressing his contempt for his generation. His home was a narrow, open earthenware tub or barrel that he trundled about with him. On seeing a child drinking from cupped hands, he threw away his only worldly possession, a wooden bowl. On being asked by Alexander the Great if the emperor could oblige him in any way, he replied, “Yes, by standing out of my sunshine.” More lore surrounds Diogenes of Sinope (ca. 412–322 b.c.), a relatively minor philos- opher, than many a more deserving thinker. Diogenes the Cynic held that the virtuous life was the simple life and advocated a return to such ways; he considered self-control, the lack of all pleasure, and even pain and hunger essential to achieving goodness. The Greeks nicknamed him “dog” for what they con- sidered his shameful ways (see cynic), but Diogenes consid- ered himself a governor of men; in fact, he once told pirates who had captured him that he would like to be sold to a man who needed a master. Diogenes died on the same day as Alex- ander the Great, who had said, admiringly, “If I were not Alex- ander, I would be Diogenes.” Today a Diogenes or a diogenic person is a cynical, churlish, but independent one, while a West Indian hermit crab bears the philosopher’s name because it lives in empty shells reminiscent of his tub.

词汇	diogenes
词源	Diogenes; Diogenes crab; Diogenic. He is said to have walked the streets of Athens with a lantern in broad daylight searching for an honest man, thus expressing his contempt for his generation. His home was a narrow, open earthenware tub or barrel that he trundled about with him. On seeing a child drinking from cupped hands, he threw away his only worldly possession, a wooden bowl. On being asked by Alexander the Great if the emperor could oblige him in any way, he replied, “Yes, by standing out of my sunshine.” More lore surrounds Diogenes of Sinope (ca. 412–322 b.c.), a relatively minor philos- opher, than many a more deserving thinker. Diogenes the Cynic held that the virtuous life was the simple life and advocated a return to such ways; he considered self-control, the lack of all pleasure, and even pain and hunger essential to achieving goodness. The Greeks nicknamed him “dog” for what they con- sidered his shameful ways (see cynic), but Diogenes consid- ered himself a governor of men; in fact, he once told pirates who had captured him that he would like to be sold to a man who needed a master. Diogenes died on the same day as Alex- ander the Great, who had said, admiringly, “If I were not Alex- ander, I would be Diogenes.” Today a Diogenes or a diogenic person is a cynical, churlish, but independent one, while a West Indian hermit crab bears the philosopher’s name because it lives in empty shells reminiscent of his tub.
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