英语词汇unicorn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

unicorn. Medieval writers represented this mythical animal as having “the legs of a buck, the tail of a lion, the head and body of a horse and a single horn—white at the base, black in the middle and red at the tip—its body white, head red, and eyes blue.” It takes its name, of course, from the most distinc- tive of its features, the single horn in the center of its forehead, from the Latin unum cornu, “one horn.” Described as early as 400 b.c., the mythical beast was thought to be the only animal able to defeat an elephant—by ripping the elephant’s belly with its sharp hooves. It could be caught only by “placing a young virgin in its haunts”—the unicorn would lie down placidly at her feet.

词汇	unicorn
词源	unicorn. Medieval writers represented this mythical animal as having “the legs of a buck, the tail of a lion, the head and body of a horse and a single horn—white at the base, black in the middle and red at the tip—its body white, head red, and eyes blue.” It takes its name, of course, from the most distinc- tive of its features, the single horn in the center of its forehead, from the Latin unum cornu, “one horn.” Described as early as 400 b.c., the mythical beast was thought to be the only animal able to defeat an elephant—by ripping the elephant’s belly with its sharp hooves. It could be caught only by “placing a young virgin in its haunts”—the unicorn would lie down placidly at her feet.
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