英语词汇beats的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

beats; beat generation; beatnik. Novelist Jack Kerouac claimed he invented the word beat for Allen Ginsberg’s “angel- headed hipsters” of the fifties, and said it meant “beatific, bliss- fully happy,” that “you got the beat,” but it probably owes a lot to the early thirties jargon of jazz musicians in which beat meant “exhausted, frustrated, played out.” In fact, beat in this last sense was used generally as far back as 1830. Beat genera- tion seems certainly to have been Kerouac’s name for the fifties “Lost Generation,” though it was first used in John Clellon Hol- mes’s novel Go! (1957). Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran- cisco Chronicle coined beatnik in 1958. The pejorative though affectionate Yiddish suffix nik (as in “nudnik,” “no-good-nik,” etc.) was probably added to beat to make the word, but remem- ber that the Russian sputnik (“fellow traveler of the earth”) with its Polish suffix nik was launched at the time.

词汇	beats
词源	beats; beat generation; beatnik. Novelist Jack Kerouac claimed he invented the word beat for Allen Ginsberg’s “angel- headed hipsters” of the fifties, and said it meant “beatific, bliss- fully happy,” that “you got the beat,” but it probably owes a lot to the early thirties jargon of jazz musicians in which beat meant “exhausted, frustrated, played out.” In fact, beat in this last sense was used generally as far back as 1830. Beat genera- tion seems certainly to have been Kerouac’s name for the fifties “Lost Generation,” though it was first used in John Clellon Hol- mes’s novel Go! (1957). Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran- cisco Chronicle coined beatnik in 1958. The pejorative though affectionate Yiddish suffix nik (as in “nudnik,” “no-good-nik,” etc.) was probably added to beat to make the word, but remem- ber that the Russian sputnik (“fellow traveler of the earth”) with its Polish suffix nik was launched at the time.
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