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英文词源

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prestige: [17] As opponents of semantic change are fond of pointing out, prestige once meant ‘trick, illusion’, and its use until the 19th century was usually derogatory. It comes via French prestige from Latin praestigiae ‘illusions produced by a conjurer or juggler’, an alteration of an unrecorded *praestrigiae. This would have been a derivative of praestringere ‘blindfold’, hence ‘confuse the sight, dazzle’, a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘before’ and stringere ‘bind’ (source of English strict). The modern approbatory meaning appears to have been reintroduced from French.
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prestige (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1650s, "trick," from French prestige (16c.) "deceit, imposture, illusion" (in Modern French, "illusion, magic, glamour"), from Latin praestigium "delusion, illusion" (see prestigious). Derogatory until 19c.; sense of "dazzling influence" first applied 1815, to Napoleon.

中文词源

prestige(声望):魔术中令人叹为观止的幻觉

好莱坞著名电影《致命魔术》(the prestige)讲述了两个超级魔术师明争暗斗的故事。很多观众对该片的英文名字不理解。英语单词prestige在字典中是“声望”的意思,跟魔术到底有什么关系呢?其实,这个单词的本意就是魔术表演中的招数、特技的意思。它源自praestringere,由prae(pre,在……前面)+ stringere(捆绑),字面意思就是“在人面前假装把自己捆绑起来”。

电影《致命魔术》对prestige的内涵进行了深刻阐述:每一次魔术表演包括三个步骤。第一步叫做pledge,魔术师展示一些真实的、平常的物品或场景,并请观众检验;第二部叫做turn,魔术师利用这些平常的物品做出不寻常的事情,如使东西消失,但这还不足以使观众鼓掌。因此优秀的魔术还需要第三步,这就是prestige,这也是最重要的一步。魔术师要在这一步做出匪夷所思的事情,如把消失的东西以意想不到的方式再次带回到人们面前,从而博得观众的惊奇与赞叹。

由此可见,prestige的本意是指高超的魔术师所创造出的令人匪夷所思、叹为观止的幻觉,这种幻觉能使观众如痴如醉,从而对观众产生巨大的影响力,对魔术师五体投地、敬若神明。因此prestige一词也就衍生出“影响力、声望”的含义。

prestige: [pre'stiː(d)ʒ] n.威望,声望,声誉

prestigious: [pre'stɪdʒəs] adj.有声望的

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

prestige:威望,名望

来自法语prestige,欺骗,骗术,幻术,变戏法,来自拉丁语praestigium,幻术,变戏法,来自(异化自)praestringere,使眼花缭乱,使眩晕,来自prae,在前面,stringere,拉,拉绳子,捆绑,词源同string.该词原用于形容法国皇帝拿破仑像个街头玩变戏法的,含贬义和讽刺意味,后随着越来越多的人崇拜拿破仑,词义由贬义转褒义,而原词义则不再使用。

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