英语词汇scrooge的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Scrooge. Old Scrooge in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843) is not given any credit in the language for eventually becoming a genial old chap at the tale’s end; his name still means a miser- ly, mean old man (and, sometimes, woman). Incidentally, Scrooge may well be a real English name. Dickens, like Balzac, was in the habit of collecting real names to use in his stories. As Joseph Shipley has pointed out, Scrooge is an apt name for the character, suggesting someone always ready “to put the screws on.”

词汇	scrooge
词源	Scrooge. Old Scrooge in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843) is not given any credit in the language for eventually becoming a genial old chap at the tale’s end; his name still means a miser- ly, mean old man (and, sometimes, woman). Incidentally, Scrooge may well be a real English name. Dickens, like Balzac, was in the habit of collecting real names to use in his stories. As Joseph Shipley has pointed out, Scrooge is an apt name for the character, suggesting someone always ready “to put the screws on.”
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