國家給詩人的桂冠
核心畫面本身，以及它在英國的那個特定版本。
noun · C1
A poet who is officially chosen by a country's ruler or government to write poems for important national occasions.
桂冠詩人
核心畫面
Picture a ring of laurel leaves placed on a poet's head. It is not payment and it is not a job — it is a mark put on one person in public, by someone with the standing to put it there. That is the whole term: a country picks one poet, crowns them in front of everyone, and from then on, when the country has something big to mark, it is this person who is asked for the words.
可以想成一圈月桂葉被戴到一位詩人的頭上。那不是薪水，也不是工作，而是一個公開蓋上去的記號，蓋的人有資格這麼做。整個詞…更多收起
可以想成一圈月桂葉被戴到一位詩人的頭上。那不是薪水，也不是工作，而是一個公開蓋上去的記號，蓋的人有資格這麼做。整個詞大概就是這個畫面：一個國家挑出一位詩人，當眾為他戴上桂冠；從此以後，只要國家有大事要記下來，要找的就是這個人。From the word’s history
The source explains the name by the laurel wreath: those who received the honour were presented with a wreath of laurel.
來源資料在解釋一個舊用法時說明了這個名稱的由來：得到這份榮譽的人會被獻上一頂月桂編成的環。所以 laureate 可以想成「戴桂冠的」，中文譯成「桂冠詩人」正好留住同一個畫面。
Wiktionary gloss note in packet (wikt:poet laureate:noun:1): so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel.
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