land of Nod
英语
编辑词源
编辑原指挪得之地,《创世记》4:16 中提到,该隐谋害其弟亚伯而被上帝放逐后到达的区域[1]。nod 在英语有“点头、打盹”的意思。这个文字游戏最早由 乔纳森·斯威夫特使用。对照 nod off。
发音
编辑专有名词
编辑- (诗歌) 梦乡,熟睡的状态
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- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod [梦乡]”, 出自 A Child's Garden of Verses [儿童诗园][1]:
- From breakfast on through all the day / At home among my friends I stay; / But every night I go abroad / Afar into the land of Nod.
- 从早餐开始一整天 / 我都待在家里,和朋友们在一起; / 但每天晚上我都要出国 / 去远方的梦乡。
- 1892, Wenona Gilman [pseudonym; Florence Blackburn White Schoeffel], 章号 XXX, 出自 Leonie, The Typewriter[2], New York: Norman L. Munro:
- […] but she was too tired for anything under heaven to disturb her, and after a moment of wakeful dreaming she was in the land of Nod!
- […] 但是她实在是太累了,天底下没有任何东西可以打扰她,经过片刻的清醒梦后,她就到了梦乡!
参考资料
编辑- ↑ The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version),London: […] Robert Barker, […],1611年,OCLC 964384981, Genesis 4:16:“And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden.”