1. Ian Fleming named James Bond after an ornithologist because it was the "dullest name" he'd ever heard.
伊恩?弗萊明用一個(gè)鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)學(xué)家的名字來(lái)給詹姆斯·邦德取名,因?yàn)檫@是他聽(tīng)過(guò)的最呆滯的名字。
Fleming spoke to The New Yorker and explained:
弗萊明對(duì)《紐約客》解釋道:
When I wrote the first one, in 1953. I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened ... One of the bibles of my youth was Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard, so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. Mrs. Bond once wrote me a letter thanking me for using it.
當(dāng)我在1953年創(chuàng)作第一部小說(shuō)時(shí),我希望邦德是個(gè)非常無(wú)趣,對(duì)事物的反應(yīng)也很遲鈍的男人……我年輕時(shí)的圣經(jīng)是詹姆斯·邦德寫(xiě)的《西印度群島的鳥(niǎo)》,他是一名十分出名的鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)學(xué)家,當(dāng)我糾結(jié)于給我的主角取什么名字好的時(shí)候,我想到,天哪,這真是我聽(tīng)過(guò)的最呆滯的名字了。如今,這個(gè)乏味的名字在國(guó)際上已經(jīng)變成了一個(gè)激動(dòng)人心的名字。邦德夫人曾寫(xiě)過(guò)一次信給我,感謝我使用這個(gè)名字。