英语词汇jack the ripper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Jack the Ripper. After 82 years, Jack the Ripper’s name re- mains the most familiar of all murderers; no other single criminal has been so exhaustively examined in literature and on stage and screen. The Ripper murdered and disemboweled at least five and possibly nine or more prostitutes in London’s East End in 1888, in one of the most gruesome, gory serial killings in British or any other history. “Saucy Jack” was never captured in the foggy night streets of Whitechapel or Spital- fields, and his pseudonym was derived from his signatures on the bizarre, mocking notes he reputedly sent to the police. (Sept. 30th: “Double event this time. Number one squeeled a bit—could not finish straight off—had no time to get the ears for police.”) “Bloody Jack” was described as a man of medium height who wore a deerstalker cap, sported a small mustache and “talked like a gentleman.” For almost a century writers have speculated on the Ripper’s real identity, naming literally hundreds of “suspects,” including even Prime Minister Glad- stone and Albert Victor Christian Edward, duke of Clarence and Avondale, Queen Victoria’s grandson and heir to the throne of England.

词汇	jack the ripper
词源	Jack the Ripper. After 82 years, Jack the Ripper’s name re- mains the most familiar of all murderers; no other single criminal has been so exhaustively examined in literature and on stage and screen. The Ripper murdered and disemboweled at least five and possibly nine or more prostitutes in London’s East End in 1888, in one of the most gruesome, gory serial killings in British or any other history. “Saucy Jack” was never captured in the foggy night streets of Whitechapel or Spital- fields, and his pseudonym was derived from his signatures on the bizarre, mocking notes he reputedly sent to the police. (Sept. 30th: “Double event this time. Number one squeeled a bit—could not finish straight off—had no time to get the ears for police.”) “Bloody Jack” was described as a man of medium height who wore a deerstalker cap, sported a small mustache and “talked like a gentleman.” For almost a century writers have speculated on the Ripper’s real identity, naming literally hundreds of “suspects,” including even Prime Minister Glad- stone and Albert Victor Christian Edward, duke of Clarence and Avondale, Queen Victoria’s grandson and heir to the throne of England.
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