英语词汇iron curtain的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

iron curtain. Winston Churchill did not invent this expres- sion, as is commonly believed. Many pages have been devoted to tracking down its originator, but the first person known to use the phrase in a political sense was Queen Elizabeth of Bel- gium, who said in 1914: “Between [Germany] and me there is now a bloody iron curtain which has descended forever.” Be- fore this, H. G. Wells referred to a man held incommunicado by the police as “held behind an iron curtain” in his story “The Food of the Gods” (1904). After Belgium’s Queen Elizabeth, several military writers used iron curtain with reference to a curtain of artillery fire. Then, in 1945, Nazi propaganda minis- ter Joseph Göbbels employed the phrase in the same sense as Churchill would use it eight months later, with reference to Rus- sia, and so did German statesman Count Schwerin von Krosigk. The expression refers of course to the impenetrable secrecy with which happenings in the Soviet Union and countries oc- cupied by it were concealed from the world, the image that in- spired the saying probably being the iron fireproof curtains long used in European theaters. Five months before Churchill made his famous Iron Curtain speech on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri (“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent . . .”), his countryman Sir St. Vincent Trou- bridge, a former British staff officer of SHAEF, had written an article in the Sunday Empire News headed “An Iron Curtain Across Europe.” See bamboo curtain.

词汇	iron curtain
词源	iron curtain. Winston Churchill did not invent this expres- sion, as is commonly believed. Many pages have been devoted to tracking down its originator, but the first person known to use the phrase in a political sense was Queen Elizabeth of Bel- gium, who said in 1914: “Between [Germany] and me there is now a bloody iron curtain which has descended forever.” Be- fore this, H. G. Wells referred to a man held incommunicado by the police as “held behind an iron curtain” in his story “The Food of the Gods” (1904). After Belgium’s Queen Elizabeth, several military writers used iron curtain with reference to a curtain of artillery fire. Then, in 1945, Nazi propaganda minis- ter Joseph Göbbels employed the phrase in the same sense as Churchill would use it eight months later, with reference to Rus- sia, and so did German statesman Count Schwerin von Krosigk. The expression refers of course to the impenetrable secrecy with which happenings in the Soviet Union and countries oc- cupied by it were concealed from the world, the image that in- spired the saying probably being the iron fireproof curtains long used in European theaters. Five months before Churchill made his famous Iron Curtain speech on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri (“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent . . .”), his countryman Sir St. Vincent Trou- bridge, a former British staff officer of SHAEF, had written an article in the Sunday Empire News headed “An Iron Curtain Across Europe.” See bamboo curtain.
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