open-minded 的词源

“openminded”这个词，意思是“思想开放的；坦率的，直言不讳的”，也指“乐于接受新观点的，不偏狭的，公正的”，最早出现在1828年卡莱尔的作品中。它由形容词open和后缀-minded组合而成。早在15世纪，open在比喻意义上就被用来形容心灵、手等的开放。相关词汇包括Open-mindedly（开放地）和open-mindedness（开放的心态）。

Could we hope that, in its present disjointed state, this emblematic sketch ["Wanderjahre"] would rise before the minds of our readers, in any measure as it stood before the mind of the writer; that, in considering it, they might seize only an outline of those many meanings which, at less or greater depth, lie hidden under it, we should anticipate their thanks for having, a first or a second time, brought it before them. As it is, believing that to open-minded, truth-seeking men, the deliberate words of an open-minded, truth-seeking man can in no case be wholly unintelligible, nor the words of such a man, as Goethe, indifferent, we have transcribed it for their perusal. [Carlyle, "Goethe," 1828]

我们是否可以希望，在这幅象征性的草图《Wanderjahre》尽管结构松散的情况下，它能以某种程度在读者心中重现，像它在作者心中那样清晰？希望读者在阅读时，能够抓住那些深藏其下的多重含义的轮廓，无论是第一次还是第二次，我们都期待他们的感谢，感谢我们将其呈现给他们。相信对于思想开放、追求真理的人来说，一个同样开放、追求真理的人的深思熟虑的话语绝不会完全难以理解，歌德这样的人的话也不会无关紧要，因此我们将其抄录下来，供他们阅读。[卡莱尔，《歌德》，1828年]