英语词汇man with a belly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

man with a belly. A very important person. Wrote Mario Puzo in The Godfather (1969): “For one thing, the five New York Dons were in the old Sicilian tradition, they were ‘men with a belly’ meaning, figuratively, power and courage; and lit- erally, physical flesh, as if the two went together, as indeed they seemed to have done in Sicily. The five New York Dons were stout, corpulent men with massive leonine heads, features on a large scale, fleshy imperial noses, thick mouths, heavy folded chests.”

词汇	man with a belly
词源	man with a belly. A very important person. Wrote Mario Puzo in The Godfather (1969): “For one thing, the five New York Dons were in the old Sicilian tradition, they were ‘men with a belly’ meaning, figuratively, power and courage; and lit- erally, physical flesh, as if the two went together, as indeed they seemed to have done in Sicily. The five New York Dons were stout, corpulent men with massive leonine heads, features on a large scale, fleshy imperial noses, thick mouths, heavy folded chests.”
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