英语词汇bed of ice的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bed of ice. A short story I read recently described as a bed of ice the water bed a quarrelling couple shared. The expression has a much crueler connotation in history. It seems that for one capricious reason or another Empress Anne of Russia demoted an old noble at her court to court jester and then ordered him to marry an old crone who served her as a chambermaid. At great expense the sadistic Anne had a house of ice built on the frozen Neva River and furnished it entirely with ice. The new- lyweds were, amid great fanfare, transported to their home on the back of an elephant, put into their ice bed naked and the house’s ice door was moved in place. They did not last until morning.

词汇	bed of ice
词源	bed of ice. A short story I read recently described as a bed of ice the water bed a quarrelling couple shared. The expression has a much crueler connotation in history. It seems that for one capricious reason or another Empress Anne of Russia demoted an old noble at her court to court jester and then ordered him to marry an old crone who served her as a chambermaid. At great expense the sadistic Anne had a house of ice built on the frozen Neva River and furnished it entirely with ice. The new- lyweds were, amid great fanfare, transported to their home on the back of an elephant, put into their ice bed naked and the house’s ice door was moved in place. They did not last until morning.
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