| 词汇 | emperor-s new clothes |
| 词源 | emperor’s new clothes. One of the few stories whose title has become a popular expression, in this case a byword for human vanity. The masterpiece is “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a well-known fairy tale Hans Christian Andersen wrote in 1837. Andersen submitted his immortal Fairy Tales to every publish- er in Copenhagen. All of them turned him down, and he was forced to publish the book himself. |
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