英语词汇don juan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Don Juan. Of the names most frequently applied to libertines and lovers—Casanova, Don Juan, Cyrano, Valentino, Romeo, and Lothario—only the last is completely fictional. Don Juan, though immortalized in Byron’s incomplete cantos, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and the myths and literature of many countries, is supposedly based on the 14th-century Spanish nobleman Don Juan Tenorio. That this original Don Juan had 2,594 mis- tresses, according to the valet’s figures in Mozart’s opera, is doubtful if not impossible, but the aristocratic libertine’s con- quests were legion. His last was the daughter of Seville’s com- mandant. While attempting to ravish young Dona Anna, the legendary lover was surprised by her father, whom he dis- patched in a duel. But local Franciscan monks decided that this was one debauchery too many and lured Don Juan to their monastery, where he was killed with his boots on. The monks, to conceal their crime, claimed that he had been carried off to hell by a statue of the commandant on the grounds, and thus the legend of Don Juan had its basis in fact.

词汇	don juan
词源	Don Juan. Of the names most frequently applied to libertines and lovers—Casanova, Don Juan, Cyrano, Valentino, Romeo, and Lothario—only the last is completely fictional. Don Juan, though immortalized in Byron’s incomplete cantos, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and the myths and literature of many countries, is supposedly based on the 14th-century Spanish nobleman Don Juan Tenorio. That this original Don Juan had 2,594 mis- tresses, according to the valet’s figures in Mozart’s opera, is doubtful if not impossible, but the aristocratic libertine’s con- quests were legion. His last was the daughter of Seville’s com- mandant. While attempting to ravish young Dona Anna, the legendary lover was surprised by her father, whom he dis- patched in a duel. But local Franciscan monks decided that this was one debauchery too many and lured Don Juan to their monastery, where he was killed with his boots on. The monks, to conceal their crime, claimed that he had been carried off to hell by a statue of the commandant on the grounds, and thus the legend of Don Juan had its basis in fact.
随便看	jack russell terrier jackson haines jackson hole wyoming jacksonian democracy etc jacksonian epilepsy jackson mississippi jackstraw jack tar jack the ripper jacobian jacobin jacobite jacob-s ladder jacob-s rod jacquard loom jacuzzi jade jaegers jaffa orange jag on jai alai jail no bail jaislaak jalapeño jalopy