curlicism下流文学

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

Literary indecency．John Arbuthnot remarked that publisher Edmund Curll’s inaccurate biographies were“one of the new terrors of death，”but Curll(1683－1747)was more notorious for the obscene books he published．Today“the unspeakable Curll”would have been a rich man，but inhis time he was fined，put in a pillory，and imprisoned for his efforts．Among the greats who lampooned him were Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope，who described him as“a fly in amber．”No one has identified the anonymous wit who coined the word curlicism from his name．

此词意义如上所示。John Arbuthnot(1667－1735，苏格兰讽刺作家)说，出版商Edmund Curll(1683－1747)不真实的传记是“对死亡的一种新的恐惧”，但是Curll更因出版淫秽书籍而声名狼藉。在今天，“下流的Curll”本应成为富翁，但在他那个时代，他受到了惩罚，带上了枷锁，被投入了监狱。曾嘲讽过他的文豪有Jonathan Swift和Alexander Pope，他们把他描述为“珍稀人物”。没有人能确定是哪个无名的天才从他的名字中创造了curlicism一词。