While some arts awards – the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, for instance – more or less tell you what they are by their name, other awards have a little more mystery in their monikers.

　　有那么些奖，比如“纽约影评人协会奖”，你一看名字就或多或少能猜出它是干嘛的。而有些略装逼的奖就是喜欢卖卖关子。

　　Oscar

　　奥斯卡(电影界)

　　According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the alternate name for an Academy Award – an ‘Oscar’ – has an uncertain origin, but perhaps comes from the name of Oscar Pierce, an American wheat and fruit farmer. The reason behind this unlikely namesake is Margaret Herrick, librarian (and later executive director) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who noted in 1931 that the award statuette reminded her of her ‘Uncle Oscar’, the name by which she called her cousin Oscar Pierce. The reference stuck and the award is still referred to as an ‘Oscar’ more than 80 years later.

　　在牛津英语词典上，学院奖的别称是奥斯卡。而奥斯卡这一称呼怎么来的没有确切来处。有个说法是来自一名叫“奥斯卡·皮尔斯”的美国农民，这两个风马牛不相及的名字，因为玛格丽特·赫里克联系在一起。这位电影艺术与科学学院的图书管理员(后来的执行董事)在1931年时说到学院奖的小金人雕塑长得很像她奥斯卡叔叔，而那位种小麦和水果的农民奥斯卡·皮尔斯就是她的堂兄弟。于是，不知怎么的“奥斯卡”这个称呼就被一直用到了80年后的今天。