英语词汇conspicuous by one-s absence的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

conspicuous by one’s absence. Someone or something not present in a place where he, she, or it should be. The Roman historian Tacitus (ca. a.d. 56–120) seems to have coined this term (or the germ of it) in his Annals when he wrote of the fu- neral procession of Junia, the sister of Brutus and widow of Cassius: “The effigies of twenty highly distinguished families headed the procession. But Cassius and Brutus were the most gloriously conspicuous—precisely because their statues were not to be seen.” Brutus and Cassius, of course, were the leaders of the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar, both of them later committing suicide.

词汇	conspicuous by one-s absence
词源	conspicuous by one’s absence. Someone or something not present in a place where he, she, or it should be. The Roman historian Tacitus (ca. a.d. 56–120) seems to have coined this term (or the germ of it) in his Annals when he wrote of the fu- neral procession of Junia, the sister of Brutus and widow of Cassius: “The effigies of twenty highly distinguished families headed the procession. But Cassius and Brutus were the most gloriously conspicuous—precisely because their statues were not to be seen.” Brutus and Cassius, of course, were the leaders of the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar, both of them later committing suicide.
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