Pierian spring的词源
英文词源
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- jingo
- jingo: [17] The exclamation by jingo! has been around since at least the late 17th century, and the element jingo probably originated as a euphemistic alteration of Jesus. But it took on a new lease of life in 1878 when G W Hunt incorporated it into a music-hall song he was writing in support of Disraeli’s hawkish foreign policy towards the Russians. Its refrain went ‘We don’t want to fight, yet by Jingo! if we do, We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too’. By jingo! was taken up as a nationalistic rallying call: those who supported Disraeli’s plan to send in the fleet were called jingoes, and their attitude was dubbed jingoism.
But these were terms used by their opponents, not by the jingoes themselves, and they were essentially derogatory, and when jingoism later broadened out in meaning, it denoted a mindless gung-ho patriotism.
中文词源
比埃里亚（Pieria）是希腊东北部的一个地区，相传这里曾是缪斯女神的出生地。缪斯女神是主神宙斯和记忆之神的女儿，共有9位，掌管文艺，是诗人的保护神，是诗和一切艺术的化身。传说比埃里亚的泉水（Pierian spring）因为缪斯女神的缘故而成了神水，任何人只要饮此处泉水即可获得文艺和诗歌上的灵感，所以，人们就用Pierian spring（比埃里亚泉水）来表示“诗歌灵感的源泉、知识的源泉。”
例句：A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not thePierian spring. 一知半解是很危险的。知识需要深入探索，否则就不要开始。
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