| 释义 |
‖ perfide, a.|pɛrfid|
[Fr., = treacherous.]
In phr. perfide Albion, with reference to the Fr. phr. la perfide Albion, ‘perfidious Albion’ (see Albion).
1846[see Albion]. 1899Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 52 Had Mr. Kipling been born a Frenchman..he..would..be known to us only as a..fulminator against ‘perfide Albion’. 1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. iv. 142 Perfide Albion! Heh! We always wait till the last moment to declare our policy... Gives the impression that we serve time. 1947H. Nicolson Diary 2 Jan. (1968) 88 We always go through these stages of being beastly to our friends because we are frightened of our enemies. It is this that has earned us the reputation of perfide Albion. 1972R. Mayne Europeans v. 119 The phrase ‘la perfide Angleterre’, later to become ‘perfide Albion’, may have been coined by Jacques Bérigne Bossuet in a sermon on New Year's Day, 1654. |