英语词汇egghead的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

egghead. Usually a term of mild contempt or derision applied to intellectuals, egghead was first used in its present sense to de- scribe candidate Adlai Stevenson and his advisers during the 1952 presidential campaign. Though the physical description better fit Stevenson’s opponent, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the term echoed the popular misconception that all intellectu- als have high brows and heads shaped like eggs, the same kind of heads cartoonists give to “superior beings” from outer space. The continued popularity of the expression seems to suggest, sadly enough, that though these heads be admittedly full of brains, they are alien to the “common person.” But egghead is often used humorously, even endearingly, and may yet become a word with no stigma attached to it. See highbrow.

词汇	egghead
词源	egghead. Usually a term of mild contempt or derision applied to intellectuals, egghead was first used in its present sense to de- scribe candidate Adlai Stevenson and his advisers during the 1952 presidential campaign. Though the physical description better fit Stevenson’s opponent, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the term echoed the popular misconception that all intellectu- als have high brows and heads shaped like eggs, the same kind of heads cartoonists give to “superior beings” from outer space. The continued popularity of the expression seems to suggest, sadly enough, that though these heads be admittedly full of brains, they are alien to the “common person.” But egghead is often used humorously, even endearingly, and may yet become a word with no stigma attached to it. See highbrow.
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