| 词汇 | land of nod |
| 词源 | land of Nod. Jonathan Swift, as fond of puns as the next man and better at them than most, is responsible for this expression meaning “the land of sleep.” In his Polite Conversation (1738) Swift wrote that he was “going into the land of Nod,” that is, go- ing to sleep. The land of Nod, which suggests the nodding of a sleepy head, was a pun on the “land of Nod” or “land of wan- dering,” the place where Cain was exiled after he slew Abel (Gen. 4:16). |
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