英语词汇lady godiva的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Lady Godiva. Strategically arranging her long golden tresses, Lady Godiva rode through Coventry, relieving herself of her clothes and inhibitions in order to relieve her people of oppres- sive taxation. According to the traditional story, Lady Godiva (ca. 1040–ca. 1080) had jokingly agreed to ride naked through the crowded streets at high noon if her husband, Leofric, earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry, and one of the most powerful no- bles in England, would lift burdensome taxes he had imposed on the townspeople. At least Leofric thought she was joking. To the delight of his twice-blessed tenants, the earl had to keep his promise when his wife took him at his word. He removed the levy almost as soon as she had removed her clothes and dis- played herself in the marketplace. Lady Godiva, a title more hu- morously applied to any undraped woman, was apparently the benefactress of several religious houses in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and founded the Benedictine monastery at Coventry. Her real name was Godgifu, and her legendary ride, as famous as and more interesting than that of Paul Revere, was first recorded in Flores historiarum by Roger of Wendover (d. 1237), who quoted from an earlier writer. See also peeping tom.

词汇	lady godiva
词源	Lady Godiva. Strategically arranging her long golden tresses, Lady Godiva rode through Coventry, relieving herself of her clothes and inhibitions in order to relieve her people of oppres- sive taxation. According to the traditional story, Lady Godiva (ca. 1040–ca. 1080) had jokingly agreed to ride naked through the crowded streets at high noon if her husband, Leofric, earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry, and one of the most powerful no- bles in England, would lift burdensome taxes he had imposed on the townspeople. At least Leofric thought she was joking. To the delight of his twice-blessed tenants, the earl had to keep his promise when his wife took him at his word. He removed the levy almost as soon as she had removed her clothes and dis- played herself in the marketplace. Lady Godiva, a title more hu- morously applied to any undraped woman, was apparently the benefactress of several religious houses in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and founded the Benedictine monastery at Coventry. Her real name was Godgifu, and her legendary ride, as famous as and more interesting than that of Paul Revere, was first recorded in Flores historiarum by Roger of Wendover (d. 1237), who quoted from an earlier writer. See also peeping tom.
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