英语词汇caliban的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Caliban. A brute; an ugly, degraded, beastlike man. The orig- inal was created by Shakespeare in The Tempest (1611), in which Caliban is the deformed semi-human son of a demon and the witch Sycorax. A slave of Prospero, the misshapen monster speaks poetic language still fascinating today. His name may be a variant of Cariban, a Carib, or could have been formed by metathesis from the Spanish cannibal. At one point in the play he cries, “All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him / By inch-meal a disease!”

词汇	caliban
词源	Caliban. A brute; an ugly, degraded, beastlike man. The orig- inal was created by Shakespeare in The Tempest (1611), in which Caliban is the deformed semi-human son of a demon and the witch Sycorax. A slave of Prospero, the misshapen monster speaks poetic language still fascinating today. His name may be a variant of Cariban, a Carib, or could have been formed by metathesis from the Spanish cannibal. At one point in the play he cries, “All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him / By inch-meal a disease!”
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