英语词汇superman的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

superman. George Bernard Shaw, not Friedrich Nietzsche, coined superman, never expecting a movie to be made of him. The German philosopher’s word for a dominant man above good or evil, introduced in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–91), was Übermensch, “overman” or “beyondman.” Shaw didn’t like the sound of Nietzsche’s word and so translated its German prefix über into the Latin super- then added to it the English man, translated from the German Mensch. Shaw used the new word for the first time in his play Man and Superman (1903). The term was widely popularized by an American comic book character of the same name who made his debut in the 1930s. See kal-el.

词汇	superman
词源	superman. George Bernard Shaw, not Friedrich Nietzsche, coined superman, never expecting a movie to be made of him. The German philosopher’s word for a dominant man above good or evil, introduced in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–91), was Übermensch, “overman” or “beyondman.” Shaw didn’t like the sound of Nietzsche’s word and so translated its German prefix über into the Latin super- then added to it the English man, translated from the German Mensch. Shaw used the new word for the first time in his play Man and Superman (1903). The term was widely popularized by an American comic book character of the same name who made his debut in the 1930s. See kal-el.
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