英语词汇dewitt的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dewitt. To dewitt, or brutally lynch, is chiefly a historical ex- pression today. The brothers DeWitt—Jan (b. 1625) and Cor- nelius (b. 1623)—were Dutch statesmen opposed to the war policies of their monarch when the French invaded the Nether- lands in 1672. Jan DeWitt, King William III’s major opponent and a wise, eloquent statesman, was arrested that same year and tortured in the Gevangenpoort at The Hague. When his brother Cornelius came to visit him in jail, an incensed chau- vinistic mob gathered and broke into the prison, hacking the two men to pieces and hanging their limbs and parts on lamp- posts. For many years after, to dewitt meant to perform such grisly lynchings or mob murders, one of the few such verbs in English deriving from someone’s name.

词汇	dewitt
词源	dewitt. To dewitt, or brutally lynch, is chiefly a historical ex- pression today. The brothers DeWitt—Jan (b. 1625) and Cor- nelius (b. 1623)—were Dutch statesmen opposed to the war policies of their monarch when the French invaded the Nether- lands in 1672. Jan DeWitt, King William III’s major opponent and a wise, eloquent statesman, was arrested that same year and tortured in the Gevangenpoort at The Hague. When his brother Cornelius came to visit him in jail, an incensed chau- vinistic mob gathered and broke into the prison, hacking the two men to pieces and hanging their limbs and parts on lamp- posts. For many years after, to dewitt meant to perform such grisly lynchings or mob murders, one of the few such verbs in English deriving from someone’s name.
随便看	massholes massive retaliation mast master of the universe masterpiece master-race mastic masticate mastiff mastodon matador mata hari mate matinee idol mattress matzo maudlin maundy thursday mauritania mauser mausoleum mauve maverick mawkish maxim gun