英语词汇soap opera的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

soap opera. Newsweek seems to have used soap opera first in an 11/13/39 article, putting the expression in quotes as if it were new. Earlier a writer in the Christian Century (8/24/39) came very close to coining the term, however: “These fifteen minute tragedies . . . I call the ‘soap tragedies’ . . . because it is by the grace of soap I am allowed to shed tears for these charac- ters who suffer so much from life.” He was referring, of course, to the soap manufacturers who sponsored many of the early ra- dio serials characterized by melodrama and sentimentality that are now called soap operas, or simply soaps (an abbreviated form that is 20 years or so old).

词汇	soap opera
词源	soap opera. Newsweek seems to have used soap opera first in an 11/13/39 article, putting the expression in quotes as if it were new. Earlier a writer in the Christian Century (8/24/39) came very close to coining the term, however: “These fifteen minute tragedies . . . I call the ‘soap tragedies’ . . . because it is by the grace of soap I am allowed to shed tears for these charac- ters who suffer so much from life.” He was referring, of course, to the soap manufacturers who sponsored many of the early ra- dio serials characterized by melodrama and sentimentality that are now called soap operas, or simply soaps (an abbreviated form that is 20 years or so old).
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