英语词汇valentino的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Valentino. To say silent screen star Rudolph Valentino was a sex symbol is to put it mildly. Italian born Rodolpho Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo di Valentina d’Antonguolla came to the United States in 1913, and after working as a gar- dener, a cabaret dancer-gigolo, and then a bit player in Holly- wood, he zoomed to stardom under his stage name in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), which was followed by hits like The Sheik. Valentino became the embodiment of romance and sex to women all over the world, his name still a synonym for a handsome lover. Yet despite his dark good looks, this star of stars was a timorous lover, a superstitious man who tried to bolster his sexual powers with aphrodisiacs and magic amulets, who always preferred food to women and found his neurotic, clamorous admirers completely undesirable. Valentino died of peritonitis caused by a bleeding ulcer when only 31 years old. Over 50,000 people, overwhelmingly women, attended his fu- neral in New York in 1926, and even today admirers come to mourn at his crypt in the Los Angeles cemetery where he is buried. Some 250 women have claimed publicly that “The Sheik” fathered their love children, many of whom were born years after Valentino’s death. See matinee idol; star.

词汇	valentino
词源	Valentino. To say silent screen star Rudolph Valentino was a sex symbol is to put it mildly. Italian born Rodolpho Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo di Valentina d’Antonguolla came to the United States in 1913, and after working as a gar- dener, a cabaret dancer-gigolo, and then a bit player in Holly- wood, he zoomed to stardom under his stage name in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), which was followed by hits like The Sheik. Valentino became the embodiment of romance and sex to women all over the world, his name still a synonym for a handsome lover. Yet despite his dark good looks, this star of stars was a timorous lover, a superstitious man who tried to bolster his sexual powers with aphrodisiacs and magic amulets, who always preferred food to women and found his neurotic, clamorous admirers completely undesirable. Valentino died of peritonitis caused by a bleeding ulcer when only 31 years old. Over 50,000 people, overwhelmingly women, attended his fu- neral in New York in 1926, and even today admirers come to mourn at his crypt in the Los Angeles cemetery where he is buried. Some 250 women have claimed publicly that “The Sheik” fathered their love children, many of whom were born years after Valentino’s death. See matinee idol; star.
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