英语词汇limelight的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

limelight. Royal Engineer Thomas Drummond (1797–1840), a Scottish inventor, devised the Drummond light as an aid in murky weather while assisting in a land survey of Great Britain, and soon after adapted it for use in lighthouses. Drummond, who later became secretary of state for Ireland, utilized calcium oxide, or lime, which had been isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and gives off an intense white light when heated. The Drum- mond light wasn’t used on the stage as a spotlight or called limelight until after the inventor’s death in 1840, when the ex- pression in the limelight, “in the full glare of public attention,” naturally arose from it. Limelights have long been replaced by arc and klieg lights, but the phrase in the limelight still survives.

词汇	limelight
词源	limelight. Royal Engineer Thomas Drummond (1797–1840), a Scottish inventor, devised the Drummond light as an aid in murky weather while assisting in a land survey of Great Britain, and soon after adapted it for use in lighthouses. Drummond, who later became secretary of state for Ireland, utilized calcium oxide, or lime, which had been isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and gives off an intense white light when heated. The Drum- mond light wasn’t used on the stage as a spotlight or called limelight until after the inventor’s death in 1840, when the ex- pression in the limelight, “in the full glare of public attention,” naturally arose from it. Limelights have long been replaced by arc and klieg lights, but the phrase in the limelight still survives.
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