英语词汇pennsylvania的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Pennsylvania. Silvania is the Latin for woodland, and Penn- sylvania, formed on the analogy of Transylvania (that home of monsters and werewolves in fiction), means “Penn’s woodland.” The name does not honor the Quaker William Penn, as is gen- erally believed, but his father, Admiral Sir William Penn (1621–70). Admiral Penn, a naval hero who helped frame the first code of tactics for the British navy, had been imprisoned in the Tower in 1655 for political reasons still unknown, and the author Samuel Pepys speaks bitingly of him in his diary. The crown, however, had become indebted to the admiral, Penn having loaned Charles II 16,000 pounds. On June 24, 1680, the younger Penn petitioned Charles for repayment of this debt, asking for a 300-by-160-mile “tract of land in America. . . .” The tract was to become a colony for Protestant Quakers suffering religious persecution, and Charles repaid his debt with a char- ter. Penn’s account tells us that he suggested the names Sylvania and New Wales. When Charles II added the “Penn” in honor of his father, he strongly objected since Quakers are opposed to such use of personal names.

词汇	pennsylvania
词源	Pennsylvania. Silvania is the Latin for woodland, and Penn- sylvania, formed on the analogy of Transylvania (that home of monsters and werewolves in fiction), means “Penn’s woodland.” The name does not honor the Quaker William Penn, as is gen- erally believed, but his father, Admiral Sir William Penn (1621–70). Admiral Penn, a naval hero who helped frame the first code of tactics for the British navy, had been imprisoned in the Tower in 1655 for political reasons still unknown, and the author Samuel Pepys speaks bitingly of him in his diary. The crown, however, had become indebted to the admiral, Penn having loaned Charles II 16,000 pounds. On June 24, 1680, the younger Penn petitioned Charles for repayment of this debt, asking for a 300-by-160-mile “tract of land in America. . . .” The tract was to become a colony for Protestant Quakers suffering religious persecution, and Charles repaid his debt with a char- ter. Penn’s account tells us that he suggested the names Sylvania and New Wales. When Charles II added the “Penn” in honor of his father, he strongly objected since Quakers are opposed to such use of personal names.
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