英语词汇holofernes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Holofernes. The name of several historical figures real and fictional. The earliest (the book of Judith in the Apocrypha) is the Babylonian general of Nebuchadnezzar who was decapitat- ed by the comely Judith after he let his guard down and got drunk when she promised to sleep with him. Judith holding Holofernes’s head is the subject of a number of gory Renais- sance paintings. Her action saved her city. Holofernes is also the name of the great doctor of theology Tubal Holofernes, who taught the young Gargantua in Rabalais’s Gargantua (1534); it is also the pedantic schoolmaster’s name in Shake- speare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (1595). Shakespeare is thought to have ridiculed the learned John Florio (1553–1625), the son of an Italian Protestant refugee and well known as a lexicographer and translator, the Bard inventing Holofernes as an imperfect anagram of Florio’s full name.

词汇	holofernes
词源	Holofernes. The name of several historical figures real and fictional. The earliest (the book of Judith in the Apocrypha) is the Babylonian general of Nebuchadnezzar who was decapitat- ed by the comely Judith after he let his guard down and got drunk when she promised to sleep with him. Judith holding Holofernes’s head is the subject of a number of gory Renais- sance paintings. Her action saved her city. Holofernes is also the name of the great doctor of theology Tubal Holofernes, who taught the young Gargantua in Rabalais’s Gargantua (1534); it is also the pedantic schoolmaster’s name in Shake- speare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (1595). Shakespeare is thought to have ridiculed the learned John Florio (1553–1625), the son of an Italian Protestant refugee and well known as a lexicographer and translator, the Bard inventing Holofernes as an imperfect anagram of Florio’s full name.
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