词汇 | johnny town-mouse |
词源 | Johnny Town-Mouse. Many fictional characters have been based on real people, and many animal fictional characters, such as moby-dick, have been based on real-life animals. But Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), the British author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and other books, based an animal on a real human being. Johnny Town-Mouse, in her illustrated book of the same name, is based on her friend Dr. George Parson; her descrip- tion of Johnny Town-Mouse adopts Parson’s facial features and even the long golf bag he used. |
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