英语词汇golden rule的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

golden rule. Usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” the golden rule is based upon the bibli- cal injunction from the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 7:12): “whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Golden rule has also come to mean any guiding principle. The ethical golden rule has many negative variations, from William Blake’s epigram: “He has observed the golden rule,/ Till he’s become the golden fool,” to Edward Noyes Wescott’s: “Do unto the other feller/ the way he’d like to do/ unto you an’ do it first” (David Harum, 1898). Wrote George Bernard Shaw in Maxims for Revolutionists (1903): “Do not do unto others would they should do unto you. Their tastes may be different”; and “The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.” An anonymous contemporary golden rule advises: “He who has the gold rules.” It should be added that Confucius wrote, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others,” fully five centuries before Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount. British theologian Isaac Watts (1674–1748) was the first person to directly call this precept the Golden Rule, in an essay he wrote in 1725. See reciprocity.

词汇	golden rule
词源	golden rule. Usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” the golden rule is based upon the bibli- cal injunction from the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 7:12): “whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Golden rule has also come to mean any guiding principle. The ethical golden rule has many negative variations, from William Blake’s epigram: “He has observed the golden rule,/ Till he’s become the golden fool,” to Edward Noyes Wescott’s: “Do unto the other feller/ the way he’d like to do/ unto you an’ do it first” (David Harum, 1898). Wrote George Bernard Shaw in Maxims for Revolutionists (1903): “Do not do unto others would they should do unto you. Their tastes may be different”; and “The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.” An anonymous contemporary golden rule advises: “He who has the gold rules.” It should be added that Confucius wrote, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others,” fully five centuries before Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount. British theologian Isaac Watts (1674–1748) was the first person to directly call this precept the Golden Rule, in an essay he wrote in 1725. See reciprocity.
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