英语词汇red-haired villain的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

red-haired villain. As Rosalind says in As You Like It, “His very hair is of the dissembling color.” Villains have frequently been depicted in fiction as redheads, perhaps due to the tradi- tion that Judas Iscariot had red hair. Redheads were once thought to be so deceitful that the fat of dead red-haired men was used as an ingredient in poisons and fish baits. Actually it’s hard to think of many murderous, lying, or unreliable real red- heads aside from Judas, unless you include Salomé, Lizzie Bor- den, Nero, Napoleon, Henry VIII, and General Custer. Good old redheads in history include William the Conqueror, Shake- speare, Queen Elizabeth I, American Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Van Buren (who was, however, called “the Little Magician” and worse), Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Sinclair Lewis, football great Harold “Red” Grange, and Little Red Rid- ing Hood.

词汇	red-haired villain
词源	red-haired villain. As Rosalind says in As You Like It, “His very hair is of the dissembling color.” Villains have frequently been depicted in fiction as redheads, perhaps due to the tradi- tion that Judas Iscariot had red hair. Redheads were once thought to be so deceitful that the fat of dead red-haired men was used as an ingredient in poisons and fish baits. Actually it’s hard to think of many murderous, lying, or unreliable real red- heads aside from Judas, unless you include Salomé, Lizzie Bor- den, Nero, Napoleon, Henry VIII, and General Custer. Good old redheads in history include William the Conqueror, Shake- speare, Queen Elizabeth I, American Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Van Buren (who was, however, called “the Little Magician” and worse), Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Sinclair Lewis, football great Harold “Red” Grange, and Little Red Rid- ing Hood.
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