英语词汇pilgrim的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pilgrim. As a name for the early settlers in America, Pilgrims is little more than a century and a half old, having come into common usage in about 1840. According to George Williams’s Saints and Strangers (1945): “The Pilgrims had no name for themselves as a group. For generations they were known to their descendants merely as the Forefathers, a name preserved in the only holiday officially dedicated to this memory, Forefa- thers’ Day, tardily instituted in Massachusetts in 1895 . . .” Wil- liams adds that the name “Pilgrims” for the “Forefathers” or “First Comers” was first employed by Governor William Brad- ford in 1630 when he used the phrase “they knew they were pil- grims” in his manuscript chronicle Of Plimoth Plantation, which wasn’t widely available for more than two centuries. The story of the 102 Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony is too well known to bear repeating here, except to say that these Pil- grim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock instead of in Virginia, as planned, because bad weather had kept them too long at sea and they had run out of beer, among other supplies. The word pilgrim means a wanderer, a traveler, a person who journeys a long distance to a sacred place. It has an interesting history, coming from the Latin peregrinus, meaning a stranger. This came into English as pelegrin in about 1200, but dissimilation and slothful pronunciation over the years eventually made pil- grim out of pelegrin. Thus, the Pilgrim Fathers, a proverbially industrious group, take their name from a lazy man’s word.

词汇	pilgrim
词源	pilgrim. As a name for the early settlers in America, Pilgrims is little more than a century and a half old, having come into common usage in about 1840. According to George Williams’s Saints and Strangers (1945): “The Pilgrims had no name for themselves as a group. For generations they were known to their descendants merely as the Forefathers, a name preserved in the only holiday officially dedicated to this memory, Forefa- thers’ Day, tardily instituted in Massachusetts in 1895 . . .” Wil- liams adds that the name “Pilgrims” for the “Forefathers” or “First Comers” was first employed by Governor William Brad- ford in 1630 when he used the phrase “they knew they were pil- grims” in his manuscript chronicle Of Plimoth Plantation, which wasn’t widely available for more than two centuries. The story of the 102 Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony is too well known to bear repeating here, except to say that these Pil- grim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock instead of in Virginia, as planned, because bad weather had kept them too long at sea and they had run out of beer, among other supplies. The word pilgrim means a wanderer, a traveler, a person who journeys a long distance to a sacred place. It has an interesting history, coming from the Latin peregrinus, meaning a stranger. This came into English as pelegrin in about 1200, but dissimilation and slothful pronunciation over the years eventually made pil- grim out of pelegrin. Thus, the Pilgrim Fathers, a proverbially industrious group, take their name from a lazy man’s word.
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