英语词汇charing cross的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Charing Cross. In 1290 Edward I erected a cross to the memory of his beloved Queen Eleanor (chère reine, his “dear queen”) in the center of the ancient village of Charin, midway between London and Westminster. He chose the spot because it was there that her coffin rested for the last time before her burial in Westminster. The Puritans destroyed the original cross in 1647 (it stood on the south side of Trafalgar Square, on the site now occupied by an equestrian statue of Charles I), but a new one was erected in 1865 in the courtyard of what is now called Charing Cross Station.

词汇	charing cross
词源	Charing Cross. In 1290 Edward I erected a cross to the memory of his beloved Queen Eleanor (chère reine, his “dear queen”) in the center of the ancient village of Charin, midway between London and Westminster. He chose the spot because it was there that her coffin rested for the last time before her burial in Westminster. The Puritans destroyed the original cross in 1647 (it stood on the south side of Trafalgar Square, on the site now occupied by an equestrian statue of Charles I), but a new one was erected in 1865 in the courtyard of what is now called Charing Cross Station.
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