英语词汇el dorado的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

El Dorado. A mythical land filled with gold, jewels, and oth- er great riches. El Dorado, “the gilded one,” was in the original 16th-century story an Indian chieftain in what is now Colom- bia, who was coated with gold dust during festivals and thought so little of it that he washed it off in a lake. Explorers from many European countries tried to find him, to no avail, and the yarn grew more fantastic with each telling, El Dorado becoming a country filled with riches, often spelled as one word—Eldorado.

词汇	el dorado
词源	El Dorado. A mythical land filled with gold, jewels, and oth- er great riches. El Dorado, “the gilded one,” was in the original 16th-century story an Indian chieftain in what is now Colom- bia, who was coated with gold dust during festivals and thought so little of it that he washed it off in a lake. Explorers from many European countries tried to find him, to no avail, and the yarn grew more fantastic with each telling, El Dorado becoming a country filled with riches, often spelled as one word—Eldorado.
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