英语词汇bite the dust的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bite the dust. Every time we hear of still another desperado biting the dust in western films, we are hearing an almost literal translation of a line found in Homer’s Iliad, written thousands of years ago. American poet William Cullen Bryant translated the words in 1870: “. . . his fellow warriors, many a one, Fall round him to the earth and bite the dust.” Earlier, Alexander Pope had eloquently translated the phrase as “bite the bloody sand” and English poet William Cowper had it, literally, as “bite the ground.” The idea remains the same in any case: a man falling dead in combat, biting the dust in his last hostile, futile act.

词汇	bite the dust
词源	bite the dust. Every time we hear of still another desperado biting the dust in western films, we are hearing an almost literal translation of a line found in Homer’s Iliad, written thousands of years ago. American poet William Cullen Bryant translated the words in 1870: “. . . his fellow warriors, many a one, Fall round him to the earth and bite the dust.” Earlier, Alexander Pope had eloquently translated the phrase as “bite the bloody sand” and English poet William Cowper had it, literally, as “bite the ground.” The idea remains the same in any case: a man falling dead in combat, biting the dust in his last hostile, futile act.
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