英语词汇great carbuncle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Great Carbuncle. Nathaniel Hawthorne described the Great Carbuncle in “Sketches From Memory” (1835): “There are few legends more poetical than that of the ‘Great Carbuncle’ of the White Mountains. The belief was communicated to the En- glish settlers, and is hardly yet extinct, that a gem, of such im- mense size as to be seen shining miles away, hangs from a rock over a clear, deep lake, high up among the hills. They who had once beheld its splendor, were enthralled with an unutterable yearning to possess it. But a spirit guarded that inestimable jewel, and bewildered the adventurer with a dark mist from the enchanted lake. Thus, life was worn away in the vain search for an unearthly treasure, till at length the deluded one went up the mountain, still sanguine as in youth, but returned no more. On this theme, methinks, I could frame a tale with a deep moral.” Hawthorne did later write “The Great Carbuncle” (1837), noting that the tale was based on an “Indian tradition.”

词汇	great carbuncle
词源	Great Carbuncle. Nathaniel Hawthorne described the Great Carbuncle in “Sketches From Memory” (1835): “There are few legends more poetical than that of the ‘Great Carbuncle’ of the White Mountains. The belief was communicated to the En- glish settlers, and is hardly yet extinct, that a gem, of such im- mense size as to be seen shining miles away, hangs from a rock over a clear, deep lake, high up among the hills. They who had once beheld its splendor, were enthralled with an unutterable yearning to possess it. But a spirit guarded that inestimable jewel, and bewildered the adventurer with a dark mist from the enchanted lake. Thus, life was worn away in the vain search for an unearthly treasure, till at length the deluded one went up the mountain, still sanguine as in youth, but returned no more. On this theme, methinks, I could frame a tale with a deep moral.” Hawthorne did later write “The Great Carbuncle” (1837), noting that the tale was based on an “Indian tradition.”
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