英语词汇auto-icons的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

auto-icons. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the philosopher- author whose clothed skeleton is on display at University Col- lege, London, thought that dead people should all be embalmed and used as their own monuments. He called these auto-icons. “If a country gentleman have rows of trees leading to his dwell- ing,” he wrote, “the auto-icons of his family might alternate with the trees; copal varnish would protect the face from the ef- fects of rain—caoutchouc the habiliments.” But then Bentham also had an unusual “pet”—a teapot.

词汇	auto-icons
词源	auto-icons. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the philosopher- author whose clothed skeleton is on display at University Col- lege, London, thought that dead people should all be embalmed and used as their own monuments. He called these auto-icons. “If a country gentleman have rows of trees leading to his dwell- ing,” he wrote, “the auto-icons of his family might alternate with the trees; copal varnish would protect the face from the ef- fects of rain—caoutchouc the habiliments.” But then Bentham also had an unusual “pet”—a teapot.
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