英语词汇wreck of the hesperus的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Wreck of the Hesperus. A huge submerged rock off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts caused so many shipwrecks in the 18th century that it was called Norman’s Woe. Wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his diary for December 17, 1837: “News of shipwrecks horrible on the coast. 20 bodies washed ashore near Gloucester, one lashed to a piece of wreck. There is a reef called Norman’s Woe where many of these took place; among others the schooner Hesperus . . . I must write a ballad upon this.” The ballad proved to be “The Wreck of the Hespe- rus,” which became so well known that “wreck of the Hesperus” also became an expression for any battered or disheveled thing, as in “You look like the wreck of the Hesperus.”

词汇	wreck of the hesperus
词源	Wreck of the Hesperus. A huge submerged rock off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts caused so many shipwrecks in the 18th century that it was called Norman’s Woe. Wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his diary for December 17, 1837: “News of shipwrecks horrible on the coast. 20 bodies washed ashore near Gloucester, one lashed to a piece of wreck. There is a reef called Norman’s Woe where many of these took place; among others the schooner Hesperus . . . I must write a ballad upon this.” The ballad proved to be “The Wreck of the Hespe- rus,” which became so well known that “wreck of the Hesperus” also became an expression for any battered or disheveled thing, as in “You look like the wreck of the Hesperus.”
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