英语词汇the sun never sets on the british empire的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

The sun never sets on the British Empire. Contrary to popu- lar notion, this saying, which used to describe the worldwide empire of the British, originated with the Spanish. Long before the first British use of the term, in 1829 by Christopher North (a pen name of John Wilson) in Blackwood’s Magazine, Gio- vanni Guarini, in Il Pastor Fido (1590) celebrated Spain’s Philip II as “that proud monarch to whom when it grows dark [else- where], the sun never sets.” It was also used by the English ex- plorer John Smith in 1631, in the form of “the sun never sets in the Spanish dominions.”

词汇	the sun never sets on the british empire
词源	The sun never sets on the British Empire. Contrary to popu- lar notion, this saying, which used to describe the worldwide empire of the British, originated with the Spanish. Long before the first British use of the term, in 1829 by Christopher North (a pen name of John Wilson) in Blackwood’s Magazine, Gio- vanni Guarini, in Il Pastor Fido (1590) celebrated Spain’s Philip II as “that proud monarch to whom when it grows dark [else- where], the sun never sets.” It was also used by the English ex- plorer John Smith in 1631, in the form of “the sun never sets in the Spanish dominions.”
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