英语词汇nero的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Nero; nero’s crown; coliseum. Cruel, vindictive, dissolute, profligate, treacherous, tyrannical, murderous—it would take a far longer string of adjectives to describe Nero, the last of the Caesars. A Nero is a bloody-minded tyrant for reasons appar- ent to any high school history student and it is enough to say here that the memory of Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Ger- manicus, born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, was publicly ex- ecrated when he died. Among the Roman emperor’s countless victims were the rightful heir to the throne, Britannicus (Nero poisoned him); his own mother, Agrippa (Nero had her killed by his soldiers after failing to drown her); his first wife, Octavia; his pregnant second wife, Poppaea (Nero is said to have kicked her to death); the son of his benefactor Lucan; and a woman who refused to marry him. Nero may well have set fire to Rome in a.d. 64 because he wanted to see what Troy looked like when it burned, although there is no trustworthy proof of the story. And that Nero fiddled while Rome burned is essentially true, though he probably sang and played the harp, not the fiddle, while regarding the spectacle with cynical detachment. The ty- rant rebuilt Rome, including a grandiose “Golden House” for himself, blamed the blaze on the Christians and persecuted them with such fury that they regarded him as the Antichrist. With such a record it’s hard to understand why anyone would name a beautiful flowering plant after him, but someone did. Nero’s crown (Tabernaemontana coronaria) is named for the bloody-minded, spindle-shanked, pot-bellied tyrant. Better to call the fragrant shrub “crape jasmine” or “Indian rose bay.” Nero is also remembered in nero antico, a black marble found in the Roman ruins and later used for ornamental purposes; and in Neroinize, “to rule, oppress, or make depraved in the manner of Nero.” The word coliseum also owes something to him. An 11-foot-high statue, or colossus, of him by Zenodorus stood near where the emperor Vespasian built the huge amphi- theater called the Colosseum, the amphitheater taking its name from Nero’s colossus and giving its name to coliseum. See ad- am’s apple tree.

词汇	nero
词源	Nero; nero’s crown; coliseum. Cruel, vindictive, dissolute, profligate, treacherous, tyrannical, murderous—it would take a far longer string of adjectives to describe Nero, the last of the Caesars. A Nero is a bloody-minded tyrant for reasons appar- ent to any high school history student and it is enough to say here that the memory of Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Ger- manicus, born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, was publicly ex- ecrated when he died. Among the Roman emperor’s countless victims were the rightful heir to the throne, Britannicus (Nero poisoned him); his own mother, Agrippa (Nero had her killed by his soldiers after failing to drown her); his first wife, Octavia; his pregnant second wife, Poppaea (Nero is said to have kicked her to death); the son of his benefactor Lucan; and a woman who refused to marry him. Nero may well have set fire to Rome in a.d. 64 because he wanted to see what Troy looked like when it burned, although there is no trustworthy proof of the story. And that Nero fiddled while Rome burned is essentially true, though he probably sang and played the harp, not the fiddle, while regarding the spectacle with cynical detachment. The ty- rant rebuilt Rome, including a grandiose “Golden House” for himself, blamed the blaze on the Christians and persecuted them with such fury that they regarded him as the Antichrist. With such a record it’s hard to understand why anyone would name a beautiful flowering plant after him, but someone did. Nero’s crown (Tabernaemontana coronaria) is named for the bloody-minded, spindle-shanked, pot-bellied tyrant. Better to call the fragrant shrub “crape jasmine” or “Indian rose bay.” Nero is also remembered in nero antico, a black marble found in the Roman ruins and later used for ornamental purposes; and in Neroinize, “to rule, oppress, or make depraved in the manner of Nero.” The word coliseum also owes something to him. An 11-foot-high statue, or colossus, of him by Zenodorus stood near where the emperor Vespasian built the huge amphi- theater called the Colosseum, the amphitheater taking its name from Nero’s colossus and giving its name to coliseum. See ad- am’s apple tree.
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