在《大学英语》精读第一册第八课后的练习(p.127)有这一句话:She did not actually say that our plan was Utopian,but that was the implication.课本将Utopian注释为:“空想的”。既然Utopian意为“空想的”,是形容词,为何又要大写呢?我向学生提出这个问题,但无人能答。为此笔者想借贵刊一角浅谈一下Utopian一词的历史来源。 早在1516年,英国作家托马斯·莫尔(Thomas Moore)用拉丁文写 In the exercises after the eighth lesson of the first volume of “College English” intensive reading (p. 127), there was this sentence: She did not actually say that our plan was Utopian, but that was the implication. The textbook commented Utopian as: of“. Since Utopian means ”Utopian" and is an adjective, why do you want to capitalize? I asked this question to students, but no one can answer. For this reason, I would like to use the corner of your magazine to talk about the historical source of Utopian. As early as 1516, the British writer Thomas Moore wrote in Latin