doppelganger的词源
英文词源
- doppelganger
- doppelganger: [19] English borrowed doppelganger from German doppelgänger, which means literally ‘double-goer’. It was originally used in the sense ‘ghostly apparition of a living person, especially one that haunts its real counterpart’ (‘hell-hounds, doppel-gangers, boggleboes’, M A Denham, Denham tracts 1851), but in the course of the 20th century it has become increasingly restricted to a flesh-andblood ‘person identical to another, double’.
=> double - doppelganger (n.)
- 1830, from German Doppelgänger, literally "double-goer," originally with a ghostly sense. See double + gang (n.). Sometimes half-anglicized as doubleganger.
中文词源
来自德语，doppel, 词源同duplicate, 复制品，ganger, 走，词源同gang. 引申词义相貌一样的人。
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其实就是double goer。日耳曼文化里同样认为灵魂会出窍，某天要是遇见和自己一样样的人（或幽灵），不是好兆头。比较：gangway ['gæŋweɪ] n.舷梯；跳板，这是岸和船甲板之间的路，而 gang [gæŋ] n. 群，v.（使）成群，那是要to go together。
