英语词汇boswell的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Boswell; boswellize. “I have a notion,” Somerset Maugham once observed, “that it is pleasanter to read Boswell’s record of the conversations than it ever was to listen to Dr. Johnson.” Bo- swell, after the ultimate in biographers, honors James Boswell (1740–95), whose The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) is the pro- totype of biographies. Boswell, born in Scotland, met Dr. John- son only after numerous rebuffs but became both friend and admirer of the great English man of letters. Over a relatively short period, he recorded in detail Johnson’s words and activi- ties. “That Boswell was a vain, intemperate man of dubious morals is of no matter to history,” writes one biographer. “He shines in the reflected glory of his great portrait.” To boswellize means to write biography in the same detailed, intimate and faithful manner as “Bozzy” did.

词汇	boswell
词源	Boswell; boswellize. “I have a notion,” Somerset Maugham once observed, “that it is pleasanter to read Boswell’s record of the conversations than it ever was to listen to Dr. Johnson.” Bo- swell, after the ultimate in biographers, honors James Boswell (1740–95), whose The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) is the pro- totype of biographies. Boswell, born in Scotland, met Dr. John- son only after numerous rebuffs but became both friend and admirer of the great English man of letters. Over a relatively short period, he recorded in detail Johnson’s words and activi- ties. “That Boswell was a vain, intemperate man of dubious morals is of no matter to history,” writes one biographer. “He shines in the reflected glory of his great portrait.” To boswellize means to write biography in the same detailed, intimate and faithful manner as “Bozzy” did.
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