英语词汇one foot in charon-s ferryboat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

one foot in Charon’s ferryboat. The ancient Greeks used this term long before one foot in the grave was current, Charon’s ferryboat being the legendary ferryboat that transported the dead across the river Styx to the Elysian Fields. In fact, it has been suggested that the Roman emperor Julian knew the Greek phrase and used it as the basis for his coinage of one foot in the grave when in his old age he exclaimed “I will learn this subject even if I have one foot in the grave!” The austere Julian the Apostate (a.d. 351–363) may or may not be the speaker, but one hopes so for the story’s sake. Another story has it that this pagan Roman emperor, who had renounced Christianity, ut- tered as his last words, “Vicisti Galilaee” (“You have won, Je- sus”). See one foot in the grave; one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave.

词汇	one foot in charon-s ferryboat
词源	one foot in Charon’s ferryboat. The ancient Greeks used this term long before one foot in the grave was current, Charon’s ferryboat being the legendary ferryboat that transported the dead across the river Styx to the Elysian Fields. In fact, it has been suggested that the Roman emperor Julian knew the Greek phrase and used it as the basis for his coinage of one foot in the grave when in his old age he exclaimed “I will learn this subject even if I have one foot in the grave!” The austere Julian the Apostate (a.d. 351–363) may or may not be the speaker, but one hopes so for the story’s sake. Another story has it that this pagan Roman emperor, who had renounced Christianity, ut- tered as his last words, “Vicisti Galilaee” (“You have won, Je- sus”). See one foot in the grave; one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave.
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