英语词汇peter pan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Peter Pan. Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, has been familiar to readers and theatergoers for several genera- tions and we now use his name to describe a person who retains in mature years the naturalness of spirit and charm as- sociated with childhood, or one who absolutely refuses to escape from the comfortable irresponsibility of childhood. British dramatist and novelist Sir James M. Barrie introduced his immortal character on the stage in the play Peter Pan (1904), although the fantastic world of Peter Pan had previ- ously been presented in his The Little White Bird (1902). Peter Pan, a poetical pantomime, as it has been called, charmed au- diences from the night it first appeared. Peter has since been played by many great stars, ranging from Maude Adams to Mary Martin, and a statue of him stands in Kensington Gar- dens, London. Barrie, who described his business as “playing hide and seek with angels,” named Peter for one of his neph- ews, for whom he wrote the story, giving the character his last name from the god Pan, “goat-footed,” god of forests, mead- ows, flocks, and shepherds. Wendy, Peter’s girl friend, also borrowed her name from a real person. This was Barrie’s own nickname, bestowed upon him by the daughter of his friend, poet W. E. Henley. Little Margaret Henley called him Friendly, then Friendly-wendy, and this ultimately became Wendy, the name he dubbed his character.

词汇	peter pan
词源	Peter Pan. Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, has been familiar to readers and theatergoers for several genera- tions and we now use his name to describe a person who retains in mature years the naturalness of spirit and charm as- sociated with childhood, or one who absolutely refuses to escape from the comfortable irresponsibility of childhood. British dramatist and novelist Sir James M. Barrie introduced his immortal character on the stage in the play Peter Pan (1904), although the fantastic world of Peter Pan had previ- ously been presented in his The Little White Bird (1902). Peter Pan, a poetical pantomime, as it has been called, charmed au- diences from the night it first appeared. Peter has since been played by many great stars, ranging from Maude Adams to Mary Martin, and a statue of him stands in Kensington Gar- dens, London. Barrie, who described his business as “playing hide and seek with angels,” named Peter for one of his neph- ews, for whom he wrote the story, giving the character his last name from the god Pan, “goat-footed,” god of forests, mead- ows, flocks, and shepherds. Wendy, Peter’s girl friend, also borrowed her name from a real person. This was Barrie’s own nickname, bestowed upon him by the daughter of his friend, poet W. E. Henley. Little Margaret Henley called him Friendly, then Friendly-wendy, and this ultimately became Wendy, the name he dubbed his character.
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