英语词汇chesterfield的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

chesterfield. Chesterfieldian usually means writings on dress and manners, referring to Philip Dormer Stanhope, the fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), whose posthumous “Letter to His Son” and “Letter to His Godson” are models of their kind. Lord Chesterfield, whose last words were “Give Dayrolles [a visitor] a chair,” did not intend his letters for publication. Dr. Johnson described them as teaching “the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing master”—but then the Great Cham was hardly an unprejudiced judge, Chesterfield having neglected the plan for his great English Dictionary, which re- sulted in Johnson’s famous letter rejecting his support when it was finished. The witty “Letters” of the statesman and diplomat were meant to be filled with worldly knowledge and thus reflected the morality of the age. The large overstuffed chester- field couch and the man’s velvet-collared overcoat with con- cealed buttons called a chesterfield were introduced in the 19th century. Both may have been named in honor of Philip Stan- hope, but it is more likely that they commemorate a later earl of Chesterfield, who may even have invented them. Just which earl no one seems to know.

词汇	chesterfield
词源	chesterfield. Chesterfieldian usually means writings on dress and manners, referring to Philip Dormer Stanhope, the fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), whose posthumous “Letter to His Son” and “Letter to His Godson” are models of their kind. Lord Chesterfield, whose last words were “Give Dayrolles [a visitor] a chair,” did not intend his letters for publication. Dr. Johnson described them as teaching “the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing master”—but then the Great Cham was hardly an unprejudiced judge, Chesterfield having neglected the plan for his great English Dictionary, which re- sulted in Johnson’s famous letter rejecting his support when it was finished. The witty “Letters” of the statesman and diplomat were meant to be filled with worldly knowledge and thus reflected the morality of the age. The large overstuffed chester- field couch and the man’s velvet-collared overcoat with con- cealed buttons called a chesterfield were introduced in the 19th century. Both may have been named in honor of Philip Stan- hope, but it is more likely that they commemorate a later earl of Chesterfield, who may even have invented them. Just which earl no one seems to know.
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