英语词汇munchausen的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Munchausen. Baron Munchausen once shot a stag with a cherry stone and afterwards found the stag with a cherry tree growing out of its head. At least so Rudolph Erich Raspe wrote in his Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1785). Raspe was a German librarian who fled to England to escape the consequences of a jewel theft he had committed and wrote the very successful book to re- store his resources. But he did base his character and many of his adventures on an actual Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Frei- herr von Munchausen (1720–97), a German officer who served in the Russian cavalry against the Turks and was known to grossly exaggerate his experiences. Thanks to Raspe’s further exaggerations of his escapades in his one-shilling book, and many additions afterward in editions fathered by other authors, the real baron’s name soon meant both a fantastic liar and a marvelous, classic lie.

词汇	munchausen
词源	Munchausen. Baron Munchausen once shot a stag with a cherry stone and afterwards found the stag with a cherry tree growing out of its head. At least so Rudolph Erich Raspe wrote in his Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1785). Raspe was a German librarian who fled to England to escape the consequences of a jewel theft he had committed and wrote the very successful book to re- store his resources. But he did base his character and many of his adventures on an actual Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Frei- herr von Munchausen (1720–97), a German officer who served in the Russian cavalry against the Turks and was known to grossly exaggerate his experiences. Thanks to Raspe’s further exaggerations of his escapades in his one-shilling book, and many additions afterward in editions fathered by other authors, the real baron’s name soon meant both a fantastic liar and a marvelous, classic lie.
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