英语词汇henry higgins的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Henry Higgins. Henry Higgins, the professor-phonetician who teaches Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle standard En- glish in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1913), has become the name for any knowing, exacting, sometimes dictatorial and thoughtless teacher of speech. Shaw took the title of his play, one of his most popular, from the Greek legend of Pygmalion, a sculptor and king who fell in love with the statue he carved of his ideal woman. Aphrodite granted his prayer that it come to life so he could marry it. In 1957 the long-running musical My Fair Lady was made from the play. David Jones (1881–1967), head of the phonetics department at University College, Lon- don, always insisted that he was the prototype for Shaw’s Henry Higgins. Jones claimed that Shaw in gratitude had a free box reserved for him for any production of the play as long as the author lived. He said Shaw chose the name Higgins after glimpsing a sign reading Jones and Higgins over a London shop, Shaw calling the character Higgins because he obviously couldn’t use Jones. More likely, according to most writers, Shaw based Higgins on the pioneering scholar Henry Sweet (1845–1912).

词汇	henry higgins
词源	Henry Higgins. Henry Higgins, the professor-phonetician who teaches Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle standard En- glish in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1913), has become the name for any knowing, exacting, sometimes dictatorial and thoughtless teacher of speech. Shaw took the title of his play, one of his most popular, from the Greek legend of Pygmalion, a sculptor and king who fell in love with the statue he carved of his ideal woman. Aphrodite granted his prayer that it come to life so he could marry it. In 1957 the long-running musical My Fair Lady was made from the play. David Jones (1881–1967), head of the phonetics department at University College, Lon- don, always insisted that he was the prototype for Shaw’s Henry Higgins. Jones claimed that Shaw in gratitude had a free box reserved for him for any production of the play as long as the author lived. He said Shaw chose the name Higgins after glimpsing a sign reading Jones and Higgins over a London shop, Shaw calling the character Higgins because he obviously couldn’t use Jones. More likely, according to most writers, Shaw based Higgins on the pioneering scholar Henry Sweet (1845–1912).
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