英语词汇we are not amused的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

we are not amused. It has been said that this reproof often attributed to Queen Victoria is “not in keeping with Queen Victoria’s conversation or character” and that she never used the royal “we” save in official proclamations. However, J. A. Fuller-Maitland wrote about an 1884 concert in A Doorkeeper of Music: “Alick Yorke sang comic songs, one of them in a flan- nel petticoat bestowed upon him by the Queen after she had insisted on his giving his famous impersonation of herself in her own presence, as a douceur [kindness] after the reproof she felt bound to utter in words that have often been quoted.” An- other story, one of many more, has the queen saying “we are not amused” upon seeing an imitation of herself by the Honor- able Alexander Granthan Yorke, her groom-in-waiting. Rich- ard the Lion-Hearted, incidentally, was the first king to use the royal we in place of I.

词汇	we are not amused
词源	we are not amused. It has been said that this reproof often attributed to Queen Victoria is “not in keeping with Queen Victoria’s conversation or character” and that she never used the royal “we” save in official proclamations. However, J. A. Fuller-Maitland wrote about an 1884 concert in A Doorkeeper of Music: “Alick Yorke sang comic songs, one of them in a flan- nel petticoat bestowed upon him by the Queen after she had insisted on his giving his famous impersonation of herself in her own presence, as a douceur [kindness] after the reproof she felt bound to utter in words that have often been quoted.” An- other story, one of many more, has the queen saying “we are not amused” upon seeing an imitation of herself by the Honor- able Alexander Granthan Yorke, her groom-in-waiting. Rich- ard the Lion-Hearted, incidentally, was the first king to use the royal we in place of I.
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