英语词汇catch-22的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

catch-22. Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 gave us this expres- sion for an “insoluble dilemma, a double bind.” In the novel, American pilots, forced to fly an excessive number of danger- ous missions, could not be relieved of duty unless they were diagnosed insane. On the other hand, the same regulations stipulated that a pilot who refused to fly, so that he wouldn’t be killed, could not be insane because he was thinking too clearly. There was no way out. By the way, Heller’s Catch-22 was origi- nally titled Catch-18, the title changed at the last minute be- cause Leon Uris’s novel Mila-18 came out just before Heller’s book was to be published. Save for this we would be saying catch-18.

词汇	catch-22
词源	catch-22. Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 gave us this expres- sion for an “insoluble dilemma, a double bind.” In the novel, American pilots, forced to fly an excessive number of danger- ous missions, could not be relieved of duty unless they were diagnosed insane. On the other hand, the same regulations stipulated that a pilot who refused to fly, so that he wouldn’t be killed, could not be insane because he was thinking too clearly. There was no way out. By the way, Heller’s Catch-22 was origi- nally titled Catch-18, the title changed at the last minute be- cause Leon Uris’s novel Mila-18 came out just before Heller’s book was to be published. Save for this we would be saying catch-18.
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