英语词汇cromwell的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Cromwell; a Cromwellian. His name was once pronounced “Crumwell,” hence the historic Royalist toast, “God send this crumb well down!” Royalists had every reason to wish no good to this brilliant military leader and forceful statesman. A de- vout Puritan and member of Parliament who vigorously sup- ported the Roundheads, Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) eventu- ally led his new model army to victory over Charles I’s forces in battle, had the king executed in 1649, and abolished the mon- archy. In 1653 he became England’s Lord Protector, rejecting the offer of the crown but accepting what was an undisguised dictatorship. He who had established the Commonwealth and began his career as an opponent of absolutism had become an abolutist himself. To this day, his name is a synonym for dicta- tor. Cromwell died a natural death, naming his ineffectual son, Richard, as Lord Protector on his deathbed. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, but when the Royalists regained power in 1660, his body was exhumed, hanged from a gallows, and be- headed. Such was their revenge on the man who had said of Charles I, “I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.” See also oliver; regicide.

词汇	cromwell
词源	Cromwell; a Cromwellian. His name was once pronounced “Crumwell,” hence the historic Royalist toast, “God send this crumb well down!” Royalists had every reason to wish no good to this brilliant military leader and forceful statesman. A de- vout Puritan and member of Parliament who vigorously sup- ported the Roundheads, Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) eventu- ally led his new model army to victory over Charles I’s forces in battle, had the king executed in 1649, and abolished the mon- archy. In 1653 he became England’s Lord Protector, rejecting the offer of the crown but accepting what was an undisguised dictatorship. He who had established the Commonwealth and began his career as an opponent of absolutism had become an abolutist himself. To this day, his name is a synonym for dicta- tor. Cromwell died a natural death, naming his ineffectual son, Richard, as Lord Protector on his deathbed. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, but when the Royalists regained power in 1660, his body was exhumed, hanged from a gallows, and be- headed. Such was their revenge on the man who had said of Charles I, “I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.” See also oliver; regicide.
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