| 词汇 | austrian lip |
| 词源 | Austrian lip. The British historian Macaulay wrote that Charles II of Spain, last of the Spanish Hapsburgs, had a jaw so malformed that he couldn’t chew his food. Another Hapsburg, Emperor Charles V, possessed a lower jaw that protruded so far beyond his upper jaw that he could not speak an intelligible sentence. This inherited genetic defect, one of the most curious in history, is common to all the Hapsburgs, and can be seen in many of their portraits. It was probably inherited through marriage with the Polish princely family of Jagellon and per- petuated by intermarriage among the Hapsburgs themselves. The term Austrian lip describes the deformity far better than “severely protruding lower jaw.” |
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