book-burning 的詞源
book-burning(n.)
"焚書坑儒",指將被認爲是淫穢、腐敗等的出版物用火進行大規模破壞,始於1850年,源自 book(n.)和 burn(v.)的動名詞。作爲形容詞,最早見於1726年(約翰·託蘭是其受害者)。
What an irreparable destruction of History, what a deplorable extinction of arts and inventions, what an unspeakable detriment to Learning, what a dishonor upon human understanding, has the cowardly proceeding of the ignorant or rather of the interested against unarm'd monuments at all times occasion'd! And yet this Book-burning and Letter-murdring humor, tho far from being commanded by Christ, has prevail'd in Christianity from the beginning .... [John Toland, "The History of the Druids," 1726]
這種愚蠢的行爲,即對無辜的文物進行毀滅,對歷史造成了不可挽回的破壞,對藝術和發明造成了可悲的消失,對學問造成了無法言喻的損害,對人類理解的尊嚴造成了侮辱。然而,這種焚書坑儒的行爲,雖然遠非基督所命令,但從基督教的開始就盛行了.... [約翰·託蘭,《德魯伊歷史》,1726年]
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