词汇 | sheik |
词源 | sheik. Sheik must be added to the number of terms such as casanova, lothario, don juan, and valentino that we’ve treated in these pages. This word for a great lover or lady-killer derives from the name of the Arabian lover played by Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik (1921), a film based on E. M. Hull’s novel The Sheik (1919). |
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