"sylpheed"这个词是怎么来的?

来源:百度知道 编辑:UC知道 时间:2024/07/09 04:55:16
我只知道它是风之精灵的意思
我想知道这个词是如何产生的,从历史和文学上讲

Sylpheed意为「轻盈」(light weight),像风一样,由「风之精灵」的名字Sylphs 而来的。Sylpheed 是一套可以用来收信及阅读新闻群组的软体,用GTK+ library开发而成,(Sylpheed is an email and news client based on the GTK+ library.)可在X-window 系统上执行。 It offers quick response, easy configuration and an abundance of features. Sylpheed is free software licensed under the GPL. It stores mails in the MH Message Handling System.

以下则为Sylph之源:
Sylph is a faux-mythological creature in the Western tradition. The term "Sylph" originates in Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air. There is no substantial mythos associated with them.

In Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope invents a theory to explain the sylph. In a parody of heroic poetry, and in particular the sometimes esoterically Classical heroic poetry of the 18th century in England and France, Pope pretends to have a new alchemy, where the sylph is the condensed humors of peevish women. In Pope's poem, women who are fu