英语词汇roman holiday的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Roman holiday. A holiday that is obtained at the expense of others, just as the Romans obtained their enjoyment at the ex- pense of the doomed gladiators who fought in the arena. Byron invented the expression in “Childe Harold” when writing of a captured Gaul forced to fight in the arena and “Butcher’d to make a Roman holiday.” A Roman holiday is thus also bread and circuses, a public spectacle marked by onlookers pleas- uring in the brutal, barbaric display of anything, from an air- plane crash to a violent hockey game.

词汇	roman holiday
词源	Roman holiday. A holiday that is obtained at the expense of others, just as the Romans obtained their enjoyment at the ex- pense of the doomed gladiators who fought in the arena. Byron invented the expression in “Childe Harold” when writing of a captured Gaul forced to fight in the arena and “Butcher’d to make a Roman holiday.” A Roman holiday is thus also bread and circuses, a public spectacle marked by onlookers pleas- uring in the brutal, barbaric display of anything, from an air- plane crash to a violent hockey game.
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