英语词汇groves of academe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

groves of academe. According to legend, the Athenian hero Academus helped Castor and Pollux rescue their little sister Helen when she was kidnapped by the Athenian Prince The- seus. Academus revealed Helen’s hiding place, and she was spared marriage with Theseus, growing up to become the fa- mous “face that launched a thousand ships,” in reference to her later abduction by Paris, which caused the Trojan War. As a re- ward for his help the Spartans gave an olive grove on the out- skirts of Athens to Academus, the place later becoming a public park called the Grove of Academus in his honor. Much later, around 387 b.c., the philosopher Plato had a house and garden adjoining this park and opened a school of philosophy there. He walked and talked with his students in the peaceful olive grove for the rest of his life, was buried near the grove, and his peripatetic successors taught there as well, so his school of phi- losophy became known as the Academia, after the olive grove honoring the eponymous hero Academus. Renaissance schol- ars later adopted the name acadème, or “academy,” for an insti- tution devoted to learning, from the learning of philosophy to the learning of war, and it is from the word academy that our word academic derives. Possibly the most famous of academies is the French Académie française founded in 1635, but this lit- erary school has its detractors, too, having been called the “hô- tel des invalides de la littérature.” American author Mary McCa- rthy (1912–89) wrote the satirical novel The Groves of Academe (1952).

词汇	groves of academe
词源	groves of academe. According to legend, the Athenian hero Academus helped Castor and Pollux rescue their little sister Helen when she was kidnapped by the Athenian Prince The- seus. Academus revealed Helen’s hiding place, and she was spared marriage with Theseus, growing up to become the fa- mous “face that launched a thousand ships,” in reference to her later abduction by Paris, which caused the Trojan War. As a re- ward for his help the Spartans gave an olive grove on the out- skirts of Athens to Academus, the place later becoming a public park called the Grove of Academus in his honor. Much later, around 387 b.c., the philosopher Plato had a house and garden adjoining this park and opened a school of philosophy there. He walked and talked with his students in the peaceful olive grove for the rest of his life, was buried near the grove, and his peripatetic successors taught there as well, so his school of phi- losophy became known as the Academia, after the olive grove honoring the eponymous hero Academus. Renaissance schol- ars later adopted the name acadème, or “academy,” for an insti- tution devoted to learning, from the learning of philosophy to the learning of war, and it is from the word academy that our word academic derives. Possibly the most famous of academies is the French Académie française founded in 1635, but this lit- erary school has its detractors, too, having been called the “hô- tel des invalides de la littérature.” American author Mary McCa- rthy (1912–89) wrote the satirical novel The Groves of Academe (1952).
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