silhouette的词源
英文词源
- silhouette
- silhouette: [18] The term silhouette commemorates the name of the French author and politician Étienne de Silhouette (1709–67). As finance minister in the late 1750s he gained a reputation for cheeseparing, and silhouette came to be used for anything skimped. One account of the application of the word to a ‘simple cut-out picture’ is that it carries on this notion of ‘simplicity’ or ‘lack of finish’, but an alternative theory is that Silhouette himself was in the habit of making such pictures. The metaphorical use of the term for a ‘dark image against a bright background’ emerged in the mid-19th century.
- silhouette (n.)
- 1798, from French silhouette, in reference to Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), French minister of finance in 1759. Usually said to be so called because it was an inexpensive way of making a likeness of someone, a derisive reference to Silhouette's petty economies to finance the Seven Years' War, which were unpopular among the nobility. But other theories are that it refers to his brief tenure in office, or the story that he decorated his chateau with such portraits.
Silhouette portraits were so called simply because they came into fashion in the year (1759) in which M. de Silhouette was minister. [A. Brachet, "An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language," transl. G.W. Kitchin, 1882]
Used of any sort of dark outline or shadow in profile from 1843. The verb is recorded from 1876, from the noun. The family name is a Frenchified form of a Basque surname; Arnaud de Silhouette, the finance minister's father, was from Biarritz in the French Basque country; the southern Basque form of the name would be Zuloeta or Zulueta, which contains the suffix -eta "abundance of" and zulo "hole" (possibly here meaning "cave").
中文词源
silhouette（剪影）：因厉行节俭而被嘲笑的法国财务大臣西卢埃特
英语单词silhouette（剪影）来自18世纪法国财务大臣Etienne de Silhouette的名字。在他担任财务大臣时，法国因为“七年战争”而陷入财务危机。他上任后厉行节俭政策，禁止铺张奢华，因此遭到很多人尤其是有钱人的憎恶。为了嘲笑他，人们把他的名字当成了各种便宜货的代名词。当时在法国出现了一种便宜的肖像方法，即在纸上剪出人物的外部轮廓。与常规的肖像画相比，这种剪影方式非常便宜。人们便沿用一贯的恶搞，将其称呼为silhouette。没想到后来这个词竟然长盛不衰，正式成为了表示“剪影”的名词。
silhouette：[,sɪlʊ'et] n.剪影，轮廓
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：silhouette 词源，silhouette 含义。
来自 18 世纪欧洲七年战争时期的法国财务部长 Etienne de Silhouette,因在战争时期实施紧缩 的财政政策而遭到过惯了奢靡生活的其它贵族的愤恨，因而引申该词义。同时，也有另一种 观点认为是因该财务部长用类似剪影图片装饰自家城堡而得名。
