英语词汇isabel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

isabel; isabelline. Traditionally, this lady’s soiled underwear gives her name to the brownish-yellow or grayish color isabel. The full story is rarely told. Archduchess Isabella of Austria was the daughter of Spain’s Philip II and his fourth wife, Anne of Austria, daughter of Austrian ruler Maximilian II. In 1598 King Philip married Isabella to Austrian Archduke Albert, and as part of a plan to reconquer the United Provinces, handed over the whole of the Netherlands to the newly married couple as a sovereign state. Philip died that same year, but his war contin- ued, which is where Isabella’s underwear makes its contribu- tion to history. Supposedly, Isabella vowed never to remove her underwear, even for washing, until husband Albert took the city of Ostend by siege. But Ostend’s Flemish defenders had lit- tle sympathy for either Isabella or Albert. They held out for three years, playing a glorious role in the Dutch struggle for in- dependence. Ostend was in ruins and 40,000 Spanish lives had been lost before the Belgian port city surrendered in 1604. Af- ter three years Isabella’s underwear certainly must have been is- abelline, and she might have worn it even longer, for we are told that Albert did not win Ostend at all. General Ambrogio Spinola captured the city. Perhaps this led to jokes about why Albert and Isabella had no children, but, at any rate, the couple ruled wisely after a 12-year truce was effected in 1609, the war resuming again at the truce’s expiration. Albert died in 1621 and Isabella 13 years later. Some authorities, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, flatly reject the dirty-underwear hypothesis, while others, like Webster’s, admit it with a cautious “It is said,” and with still others it washes well.

词汇	isabel
词源	isabel; isabelline. Traditionally, this lady’s soiled underwear gives her name to the brownish-yellow or grayish color isabel. The full story is rarely told. Archduchess Isabella of Austria was the daughter of Spain’s Philip II and his fourth wife, Anne of Austria, daughter of Austrian ruler Maximilian II. In 1598 King Philip married Isabella to Austrian Archduke Albert, and as part of a plan to reconquer the United Provinces, handed over the whole of the Netherlands to the newly married couple as a sovereign state. Philip died that same year, but his war contin- ued, which is where Isabella’s underwear makes its contribu- tion to history. Supposedly, Isabella vowed never to remove her underwear, even for washing, until husband Albert took the city of Ostend by siege. But Ostend’s Flemish defenders had lit- tle sympathy for either Isabella or Albert. They held out for three years, playing a glorious role in the Dutch struggle for in- dependence. Ostend was in ruins and 40,000 Spanish lives had been lost before the Belgian port city surrendered in 1604. Af- ter three years Isabella’s underwear certainly must have been is- abelline, and she might have worn it even longer, for we are told that Albert did not win Ostend at all. General Ambrogio Spinola captured the city. Perhaps this led to jokes about why Albert and Isabella had no children, but, at any rate, the couple ruled wisely after a 12-year truce was effected in 1609, the war resuming again at the truce’s expiration. Albert died in 1621 and Isabella 13 years later. Some authorities, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, flatly reject the dirty-underwear hypothesis, while others, like Webster’s, admit it with a cautious “It is said,” and with still others it washes well.
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