pander的词源

英文词源

pander: pander: [16] Pandaro was a character in Boccaccio’s Filostrato. He was the cousin of Cressida, and acted as go-between in her affair with Troilus. Chaucer took him over in his Troilus and Criseyde as Pandarus, changing him from cousin to uncle but retaining his role. His name came to be used as a generic term for an ‘arranger of sexual liaisons’ (‘If ever you prove false to one another, since I have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goersbetween be call’d to the world’s end after my name: call them all Panders’, says Pandarus in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida 1606), and by the mid-16th century was already well on the downward slope to ‘pimp, procurer’.

Its modern use as a verb, meaning ‘indulge’, dates from the 19th century.
pander (n.): "arranger of sexual liaisons, one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust," 1520s, "procurer, pimp," from Middle English Pandare (late 14c.), used by Chaucer ("Troylus and Cryseyde"), who borrowed it from Boccaccio (who had it in Italian form Pandaro in "Filostrato") as name of the prince (Greek Pandaros), who procured the love of Cressida (his niece in Chaucer, his cousin in Boccaccio) for Troilus. The story and the name are medieval inventions. Spelling influenced by agent suffix -er.
pander (v.): "to indulge (another), to minister to base passions," c. 1600, from pander (n.). Related: Pandered; pandering.

中文词源

pander（拉皮条）：希腊神话中充当红娘未果的潘达罗斯

潘达罗斯（Pandarus）是希腊神话中特洛伊战争期间特洛伊军队的将领之一，是特洛伊第一神箭手。擅长射箭的阿波罗曾将自己的弓箭赠与他。他在特洛伊王子特洛伊罗斯（Troilus）央求之下，凭着如簧巧舌，安排外甥女克瑞西达（Cressida）跟特洛伊罗斯在花园里幽会偷情。两个年轻人互诉衷曲，发誓永不变心。然而，克瑞西达的父亲已经投靠希腊军队，并提出用被俘的特洛伊将领安泰诺换他的女儿，交战双方都接受了这一提议。因此，克瑞西达不得不告别爱人，被交换到希腊军营，并最终成为了希腊将领狄俄墨得斯的情妇。两个年轻人的纯洁爱情就这样被战火无情地毁灭了，而充当“红娘”的潘达罗斯也背上了“淫媒”的恶名。英文pander就来自潘达罗斯的名字Pandarus，指拉皮条或拉皮条的人，也常常引申解作迎合低俗或不合理要求。

pander：['pændə] vt.为……拉皮条vi.迎合，勾引，怂恿，拉皮条n.拉皮条者，怂恿者，老鸨

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：pander 词源，pander 含义。

pander：拉皮条者

该词源出希腊传说里一位英雄Pandarus的大名。在荷马史诗《伊利亚特》（Iliad）中，希腊人围攻特洛伊城时他率领利西亚( Lycian)军队与特洛伊人协同作战。由于他用暗箭射伤了斯巴达国王墨涅拉俄斯（Menelaus），破坏了特洛伊和希腊人之间的停战协定，最后被狄俄墨得斯( Diomedes)所杀。可是在意大利文艺复兴时期的作家薄伽丘( Boccaccio，1313 - 1375)所写的关于特洛伊王子特洛伊罗斯(Troilus)和希腊祭司的女儿克雷西达( Cressida)的爱情故事中，Pandarus却是情人间的牵线人。以后在英国诗人乔叟的笔下，Pandarus也以同一身分在这个爱情故事中出现。17世纪初，莎士比亚的戏剧《特洛伊罗斯与克雷西达》问世后，Pandarus的大名开始被用以喻指“拉皮条者”、“诱人做坏事者”，在该剧中被拼作pandar。嗣后因受后缀-er的影响词形变为pander，并还可作动词用，表示“拉皮条”、“怂恿”、“勾引”等义。

pander：逢迎，投其所好

来自中古英语Pandare,英国中世纪文学之父乔叟根据古希腊荷马史诗改编的作品《Troylus and Cryseyde》中的人物，其原型为古希腊特洛伊王子Pandaros,促成了特洛伊战争时期青年男女Troylus and Cryseyder的美好爱情，后词义过渡到媒人，皮条客，并最终引申词义逢迎，投其所好等。