英语词汇glass of wine with the borgias的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

glass of wine with the Borgias. It was rumored that Lucretia and Cesare Borgia, the children of Pope Alexander VI, used some secret deadly poison to eliminate their enemies. One never knew whether he was an enemy of the Borgias, so to have a glass of wine with the Borgias, or to dine with the Borgias has been proverbial for a great but risky honor since the 16th cen- tury. Historians haven’t been able to substantiate whether any Borgia was a poisoner, but there is no doubt that some of the Borgias were murderers, the family being a pretty unsavory lot. Sir Max Beerbohm gave the proverb his attention in his Hosts and Guests: “I maintain that though you would often in the 15th century have heard the snobbish Roman say, in a would- be off-hand tone, ‘I am dining with the Borgias tonight,’ no Ro- man was ever able to say, ‘I dined last night with the Borgias.’ ”

词汇	glass of wine with the borgias
词源	glass of wine with the Borgias. It was rumored that Lucretia and Cesare Borgia, the children of Pope Alexander VI, used some secret deadly poison to eliminate their enemies. One never knew whether he was an enemy of the Borgias, so to have a glass of wine with the Borgias, or to dine with the Borgias has been proverbial for a great but risky honor since the 16th cen- tury. Historians haven’t been able to substantiate whether any Borgia was a poisoner, but there is no doubt that some of the Borgias were murderers, the family being a pretty unsavory lot. Sir Max Beerbohm gave the proverb his attention in his Hosts and Guests: “I maintain that though you would often in the 15th century have heard the snobbish Roman say, in a would- be off-hand tone, ‘I am dining with the Borgias tonight,’ no Ro- man was ever able to say, ‘I dined last night with the Borgias.’ ”
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