According to some sources, the title, the meaning of which is not explicitly revealed in the book, was taken from a review of Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage in which the novel's protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as "so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet." According to a 1956 letter from Maugham, "If you look on the ground in search of a sixpence, you don't look up, and so miss the moon." Maugham's title echoes the description of Gauguin by his contemporary biographer, Meier-Graefe (1908): "He [Gauguin] may be charged with having always wanted something else."
根据小道消息, 书中没有明确透露的标题的具体意思,在对毛姆的小说《人性枷锁》的书评中,小说的主人公菲利普·凯莉将标题的意义描述为“忙着渴望月亮,他从未见过六便士在他的脚下。”根据毛姆1956年的一封信,“因为你在地上寻找一枚六便士硬币,而你没有抬头,所以错过了月亮。”毛姆的书名与他同时代的传记作家迈尔-格拉芙(1908)对高更的描述相呼应:“他(高更)可能被认为一直想要别的东西。”
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