| 词汇 | ruritanian |
| 词源 | Ruritanian. A humorous term for any country that appears to resemble the small, remote backward central European kingdom of Ruritania in Anthony Hope’s very popular novels The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and Rupert of Hentzau (1898). Anthony Hope was the pseudonym of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863–1933), an English barrister and author. |
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