英语词汇cleopatra-s needles的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Cleopatra’s Needles. Cleopatra’s Needles is a misnomer. The two originally pink obelisks—one 681⁄2 feet tall standing on the Thames embankment, and the other 691⁄2 feet tall in New York’s Central Park—really have nothing at all to do with the Queen of the Nile. Hieroglyphics on the needles show that Pharaoh Thut- mose III erected them centuries before Cleopatra. Originally raised at Heliopolis in 1475 b.c., the obelisks were moved to Al- exandria under Augustus in about 14 b.c., where they adorned the Caesareum. In 1878 and 1880, respectively, Ismail Pasha made gifts of them to England and the United States, and it is said that they have suffered more from erosion in their present locations over the last 90-odd years than they did over thou- sands of years in Egypt. The formerly rose-red syenite granite obelisks were probably named for Cleopatra because they stood outside the Caesareum, honoring her dictator lover.

词汇	cleopatra-s needles
词源	Cleopatra’s Needles. Cleopatra’s Needles is a misnomer. The two originally pink obelisks—one 681⁄2 feet tall standing on the Thames embankment, and the other 691⁄2 feet tall in New York’s Central Park—really have nothing at all to do with the Queen of the Nile. Hieroglyphics on the needles show that Pharaoh Thut- mose III erected them centuries before Cleopatra. Originally raised at Heliopolis in 1475 b.c., the obelisks were moved to Al- exandria under Augustus in about 14 b.c., where they adorned the Caesareum. In 1878 and 1880, respectively, Ismail Pasha made gifts of them to England and the United States, and it is said that they have suffered more from erosion in their present locations over the last 90-odd years than they did over thou- sands of years in Egypt. The formerly rose-red syenite granite obelisks were probably named for Cleopatra because they stood outside the Caesareum, honoring her dictator lover.
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