英语词汇benedick的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

benedick; benedict. A benedick is strictly a sworn bachelor entrapped in marriage, while benedict refers to a bachelor of marriageable age. The former term derives from the name of the character Benedick in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Noth- ing and the latter honors St. Benedict (d. 543), founder of the Benedictine order and a great advocate of celibacy. Benedict originally meant a perennial bachelor sworn to celibacy, and it is probably for this reason that Shakespeare adopted and adapt- ed the name—for its amusing contrast to his Benedick, the young lord who vows at the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing to forever remain a bachelor and is finally talked into marriage. Shakespeare may have borrowed his idea from Tho- mas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, and the Latin Benedictus, “the blessed,” probably also influenced his choice of the name. Al- though there is a distinction between the two words, they are used interchangeably today, meaning not a bachelor anymore, but a newly married man who had been a bachelor for a long time. Benedict, as in “a happy benedict,” is the usual spelling.

词汇	benedick
词源	benedick; benedict. A benedick is strictly a sworn bachelor entrapped in marriage, while benedict refers to a bachelor of marriageable age. The former term derives from the name of the character Benedick in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Noth- ing and the latter honors St. Benedict (d. 543), founder of the Benedictine order and a great advocate of celibacy. Benedict originally meant a perennial bachelor sworn to celibacy, and it is probably for this reason that Shakespeare adopted and adapt- ed the name—for its amusing contrast to his Benedick, the young lord who vows at the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing to forever remain a bachelor and is finally talked into marriage. Shakespeare may have borrowed his idea from Tho- mas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, and the Latin Benedictus, “the blessed,” probably also influenced his choice of the name. Al- though there is a distinction between the two words, they are used interchangeably today, meaning not a bachelor anymore, but a newly married man who had been a bachelor for a long time. Benedict, as in “a happy benedict,” is the usual spelling.
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