英语词汇derrick的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

derrick. The large crane for lifting heavy objects that we call the derrick takes its name from English executioner Godfrey Derrick. Derrick was responsible for some 3,000 hangings and beheadings in his long career as public executioner, which extended into the reign of James I. His name was most likely applied to the gallows itself and then to the crane which re- sembled the gallows, though the comparison might have been made between his and the crane’s great strength or huge stat- ure. Ironically, Derrick, a convicted rapist, had been pardoned by Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, his commander in a mili- tary expedition, when he agreed to become executioner at the infamous Tyburn Prison just outside London. The young and handsome Essex, long a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, was later condemned for treason and sentenced to be executed at Tyburn in 1601. By an odd twist of fate, Derrick became his executioner, though as a headsman, for even then nobles were exempt from hanging. See dick; dirk.

词汇	derrick
词源	derrick. The large crane for lifting heavy objects that we call the derrick takes its name from English executioner Godfrey Derrick. Derrick was responsible for some 3,000 hangings and beheadings in his long career as public executioner, which extended into the reign of James I. His name was most likely applied to the gallows itself and then to the crane which re- sembled the gallows, though the comparison might have been made between his and the crane’s great strength or huge stat- ure. Ironically, Derrick, a convicted rapist, had been pardoned by Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, his commander in a mili- tary expedition, when he agreed to become executioner at the infamous Tyburn Prison just outside London. The young and handsome Essex, long a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, was later condemned for treason and sentenced to be executed at Tyburn in 1601. By an odd twist of fate, Derrick became his executioner, though as a headsman, for even then nobles were exempt from hanging. See dick; dirk.
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