英语词汇aptronyms的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

aptronyms. American columnist Franklin P. Adams (F.P.A.) coined the term aptronym, but writers have used aptronyms— “label names” that fit the nature or occupation of a character— at least since the time of Spenser’s allegorical Faerie Queene and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It is said that Plato’s real name was Aristocles and that he was called Plato (“broad”) because of his broad shoulders. Mr. Gradgrind, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Lord Easy (a careless husband), William Congreve’s gossipy character Scandal, Scott’s Dr. Dryasdust, and many of Dickens’s characters are famous fictional examples of aptronyms. In re- cent times there have been a number of real people with funny names, such as Judge Lawless, Dr. Kwak, and even an Orson Swindle of the Federal Trade Commission.

词汇	aptronyms
词源	aptronyms. American columnist Franklin P. Adams (F.P.A.) coined the term aptronym, but writers have used aptronyms— “label names” that fit the nature or occupation of a character— at least since the time of Spenser’s allegorical Faerie Queene and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It is said that Plato’s real name was Aristocles and that he was called Plato (“broad”) because of his broad shoulders. Mr. Gradgrind, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Lord Easy (a careless husband), William Congreve’s gossipy character Scandal, Scott’s Dr. Dryasdust, and many of Dickens’s characters are famous fictional examples of aptronyms. In re- cent times there have been a number of real people with funny names, such as Judge Lawless, Dr. Kwak, and even an Orson Swindle of the Federal Trade Commission.
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