英语词汇rhodesia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Rhodesia; Rhodes scholarship. Poor health, which plagued him all his life, forced empire builder John Rhodes to leave En- gland and Oxford for Africa in 1870. There he joined the rush to the Kimberley diamond fields, and by 1888 he had established De Beers Consolidated Mines, dominating both the diamond mine area and later the Transvaal gold mines. His huge fortune facilitated his entrance into politics, and he served as prime min- ister of Cape Colony, 1890–96. It was Rhodes’s desire from his youth that the British should rule the world. When the British government failed to take action he formed a private company to occupy and develop the territory of what became Rhodesia, which was named for him five years later, in 1899. (The British protectorate, Northern Rhodesia, became the republic of Zambia in 1964, and Southern Rhodesia later became Zimbabwe.) The “Empire Builder” had returned to Oxford several times in the course of his brief life—once being sent back to Africa under a virtual death sentence, the doctor noting privately that he had only six months to live. Rhodes finally earned his degree at the university, and his will left an endowment of 6 million pounds for the famed Rhodes scholarship that bears his name.

词汇	rhodesia
词源	Rhodesia; Rhodes scholarship. Poor health, which plagued him all his life, forced empire builder John Rhodes to leave En- gland and Oxford for Africa in 1870. There he joined the rush to the Kimberley diamond fields, and by 1888 he had established De Beers Consolidated Mines, dominating both the diamond mine area and later the Transvaal gold mines. His huge fortune facilitated his entrance into politics, and he served as prime min- ister of Cape Colony, 1890–96. It was Rhodes’s desire from his youth that the British should rule the world. When the British government failed to take action he formed a private company to occupy and develop the territory of what became Rhodesia, which was named for him five years later, in 1899. (The British protectorate, Northern Rhodesia, became the republic of Zambia in 1964, and Southern Rhodesia later became Zimbabwe.) The “Empire Builder” had returned to Oxford several times in the course of his brief life—once being sent back to Africa under a virtual death sentence, the doctor noting privately that he had only six months to live. Rhodes finally earned his degree at the university, and his will left an endowment of 6 million pounds for the famed Rhodes scholarship that bears his name.
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