Munchkin 的意思
小矮人; 小孩; 可爱的人
Munchkin 的词源
Munchkin(n.)
这个词最早出现在1900年,由美国作家L. Frank Baum(1856-1919)在《奥兹国的魔幻大法师》中创造。他从未解释过这个词是如何得来的。
与之最相似的词可能是mutchkin,这是一个古老的苏格兰液体容量单位,沃尔特·斯科特曾使用过。(这个词源自中世纪荷兰语mutseken,最初意为“一个小帽子”,来自mutse“帽子”,更早的形式是almutse“斗篷,头巾,头饰”,源自拉丁语amictus“披风,斗篷”,是动词amicire“包裹,披上”的过去分词名词形式,构成来自ambi-“周围”(参见ambi-)+ iacere“扔,投”(参见jet (v.))。
不过,一些研究Baum的学者认为,Münchner Kindl(慕尼黑的象征,德语München)或德语Männchen(字面意思是“小人”,与mannequin同源)可能给了Baum灵感。
While she stood looking at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen. They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older. ["The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"]
当她站在那里,凝视着那些奇特而美丽的景象时,她注意到一群她见过的最奇怪的人朝她走来。他们的个头并不像她一直习惯的成年人大,但也不是很小。事实上,他们似乎和多萝西差不多高,多萝西是个身材匀称的孩子,尽管从外表看,他们似乎比她大了许多岁。——《奥兹国的魔幻大法师》
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