1. Ian Fleming named James Bond after an ornithologist because it was the "dullest name" he'd ever heard.
伊恩?弗萊明用一個鳥類學家的名字來給詹姆斯·邦德取名,因為這是他聽過的最呆滯的名字。
Fleming spoke to The New Yorker and explained:
弗萊明對《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.
當我在1953年創(chuàng)作第一部小說時,我希望邦德是個非常無趣,對事物的反應也很遲鈍的男人……我年輕時的圣經(jīng)是詹姆斯·邦德寫的《西印度群島的鳥》,他是一名十分出名的鳥類學家,當我糾結于給我的主角取什么名字好的時候,我想到,天哪,這真是我聽過的最呆滯的名字了。如今,這個乏味的名字在國際上已經(jīng)變成了一個激動人心的名字。邦德夫人曾寫過一次信給我,感謝我使用這個名字。