英语词汇Roman holiday的发音释义、词根词缀、结构分析、同源词、词频及词根记忆法-英语词根词缀词典

Roman holiday

"occasion on which entertainment or profit is derived from injury or death," 1860, originally in reference to holidays for gladiatorial combat; the expression seems to be entirely traceable to an oft-quoted passage on a dying barbarian gladiator from the fourth canto (1818) of Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage":

But where his rude hut by the Danube lay
There were his young barbarians all at play,
There was their Dacian mother. He, their sire,
Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday!

词汇	Roman holiday
词根词缀	Online Etymology Dictionary Roman holiday n. "occasion on which entertainment or profit is derived from injury or death," 1860, originally in reference to holidays for gladiatorial combat; the expression seems to be entirely traceable to an oft-quoted passage on a dying barbarian gladiator from the fourth canto (1818) of Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother. He, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday!
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