| 词汇 | churchillian |
| 词源 | Churchillian. Often accompanying elegant oratory or prose, great wit, and statesmanship, and even a large cigar, this famil- iar adjective commemorates British prime minister Sir Win- ston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965). “On the 30th of November at Blenheim Palace, the Lady Randolph Churchill, prematurely, of a son,” read the one line notice in the London Times announcing his birth, but Churchill’s life was to fill vol- umes. Soldier, journalist, writer, and statesman, his brilliant public career included service as home secretary of state for war, and chancellor of the exchequer. Yet all his life, he felt, was merely a preparation for his crucial prime ministership during World War II. Some have gone so far as to say that England would not have survived the Blitz of 1940–41 without his lead- ership. Great Churchillian words and phrases include the much quoted, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”; “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”; “The soft underbelly of the Axis”; the “iron curtain”; and his words on the fall of France: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: ‘This was their finest hour!’ ” On April 9, 1963, Winston Churchill was paid the unique honor of being proclaimed a citizen of the United States. |
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