英语词汇moby dick的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Moby Dick. Mocha Dick, the stout gentleman of the lati- tudes, the prodigious terror whale of the Pacific, the redoubta- ble white sperm whale that fought and won over 100 sea battles against overwhelming odds—such was the reputation in the extravagant language of the time of the whale Herman Melville immortalized as Moby Dick. Melville probably first read about Mocha Dick in a piece by Jeremiah N. Reynolds in the May 1839 Knickerbocker Magazine; undoubtedly, though, he heard of him long before in the forecastles of ships he sailed on. The last mention in history of Mocha Dick is dated August 1859, when off the Brazilian banks he is said to have been taken by a Swedish whaler. He had already become legend when Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick in 1850—Melville changing his prenomen to Moby probably to suggest his amazing mobility and to avoid association with the color mocha for his white whale. The whale had been named Mocha Dick not for his color, but after the conical-peaked Mocha Island off the coast of Chile. See mocha.

词汇	moby dick
词源	Moby Dick. Mocha Dick, the stout gentleman of the lati- tudes, the prodigious terror whale of the Pacific, the redoubta- ble white sperm whale that fought and won over 100 sea battles against overwhelming odds—such was the reputation in the extravagant language of the time of the whale Herman Melville immortalized as Moby Dick. Melville probably first read about Mocha Dick in a piece by Jeremiah N. Reynolds in the May 1839 Knickerbocker Magazine; undoubtedly, though, he heard of him long before in the forecastles of ships he sailed on. The last mention in history of Mocha Dick is dated August 1859, when off the Brazilian banks he is said to have been taken by a Swedish whaler. He had already become legend when Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick in 1850—Melville changing his prenomen to Moby probably to suggest his amazing mobility and to avoid association with the color mocha for his white whale. The whale had been named Mocha Dick not for his color, but after the conical-peaked Mocha Island off the coast of Chile. See mocha.
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