| 词汇 | legend in one-s lifetime |
| 词源 | legend in one’s lifetime. It is possible that Florence Nightin- gale may be the first person so described, in Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918): “She was a legend in her lifetime, and she knew it . . .” In the same book Strachey described the great nurse as a living legend, the first recorded use of that cli- ché. A variation is a legend in her own time and a cynical varia- tion on that is the modern a legend in her own mind. See alsolady with the lamp. |
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