英语词汇never-never land的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

never-never land. Today never-never land usually signifies an unreal, imaginary, or ideal condition or place, as in “the never-never land of the movies.” Originally, however, it was Australian slang for an isolated, sparsely settled region and was first applied to all of Australia and then to the remote Austral- ian outback of Western Queensland and central Australia. This region was probably called never-never land, or country, be- cause those who visited there vowed “never, never” to return. Sir James Barrie first gave the meaning of an imaginary place to Never Land in his play Peter Pan, having Peter teach the Dar- ling children to fly away to the wonderful realm of a child’s im- agination. Today the British sometimes call installment plans “never-never plans,” because one’s ownership of the goods bought on such plans lies far in the distance in never-never land.

词汇	never-never land
词源	never-never land. Today never-never land usually signifies an unreal, imaginary, or ideal condition or place, as in “the never-never land of the movies.” Originally, however, it was Australian slang for an isolated, sparsely settled region and was first applied to all of Australia and then to the remote Austral- ian outback of Western Queensland and central Australia. This region was probably called never-never land, or country, be- cause those who visited there vowed “never, never” to return. Sir James Barrie first gave the meaning of an imaginary place to Never Land in his play Peter Pan, having Peter teach the Dar- ling children to fly away to the wonderful realm of a child’s im- agination. Today the British sometimes call installment plans “never-never plans,” because one’s ownership of the goods bought on such plans lies far in the distance in never-never land.
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