• n. 女學(xué)者；裝做有學(xué)問的女人

來自倫敦18世紀(jì)中期由社會改革家貴夫人Elizabeth Montagu創(chuàng)建的一個文學(xué)沙龍會。時值英國流行紳士文化，出席類似社交活動需著絲織長筒黑襪。著名作家Benjamin Stillingfleet 當(dāng)時很窮，買不起這種襪子，在收到Montagu夫人的邀請后，就回復(fù)說希望允許著blue stocking參加這種活動。故事傳開后，其它大男子主義者就嘲笑其為藍(lán)襪社。

bluestocking

bluestocking: [18] The term bluestocking ‘female intellectual’ derives from the gatherings held at the houses of fashionable mid-18th- century hostesses to discuss literary and related topics. It became the custom at these not to put on full formal dress, which for gentlemen included black silk stockings. One habitué in particular, Mr Benjamin Stillingfleet, used to wear greyish worsted stockings, conventionally called ‘blue’.

This lack of decorum was looked on with scorn in some quarters, and Admiral Boscawan dubbed the participants the ‘Blue Stocking Society’. Women who attended their highbrow meetings thus became known as ‘Blue Stocking Ladies’ (even though it was a man who had worn the stockings), and towards the end of the century this was abbreviated to simply bluestockings.

bluestocking (n.)

also blue-stocking, 1790, derisive word for a woman considered too learned, traces to a London literary salon founded c. 1750 by Elizabeth Montagu on the Parisian model, featuring intellectual discussion instead of card games, and in place of ostentatious evening attire, simple dress, including Benjamin Stillingfleet's blue-gray tradesman's hose which he wore in place of gentleman's black silk, hence the term, first applied in derision to the whole set by Admiral Boscawen. None of the ladies wore blue stockings. Borrowed by the neighbors in loan-translations, such as French bas-bleu, Dutch blauwkous, German Blaustrumpf.

1. As a bel esprit he despised pedantry whether in a man or in a bluestocking.

作為一個才子,他看不起賣弄學(xué)問的作風(fēng),不管這種作風(fēng)是由男人還是女才子所表現(xiàn)出來的.

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. She's no more than a bluestocking.

她也只不過是個書呆子.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)