英语词汇castles in the air的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

castles in the air. Boswell’s famous remark that he was the first man to live in a castle in the air was charming self-analysis, and Bulwer-Lytton’s observation that such castles are cheap to build but expensive to maintain is profound. However, the ex- pression came into English long before both writers from the French un chateau en Espagne (“a castle in Spain”) in about 1400, which later became castles in the air. French dreamers had been building castles in far off Spain or Albanie or Asie since the 11th century, when a poem called “The Roumant of the Rose” introduced the French phrase into English:

词汇	castles in the air
词源	castles in the air. Boswell’s famous remark that he was the first man to live in a castle in the air was charming self-analysis, and Bulwer-Lytton’s observation that such castles are cheap to build but expensive to maintain is profound. However, the ex- pression came into English long before both writers from the French un chateau en Espagne (“a castle in Spain”) in about 1400, which later became castles in the air. French dreamers had been building castles in far off Spain or Albanie or Asie since the 11th century, when a poem called “The Roumant of the Rose” introduced the French phrase into English: Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne, And dream of Ioye [ jfoy] all but in vayne.
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