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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day": incarnadine
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Mon Oct 25 10:32:14 1999), 转信
incarnadine ("in-KAR-neh-dyne'" or "in-KAR-neh-deen'")
origin: from the Latin, "incarnatus" meaning "color, carnation";
-or perhaps- from the Latin "in"+ "carne", meaning "flesh"
1. Blood-red.
"... Us, who have stained the world incarnadine"
--Dante Aligheri, "The Divine Comedy" (Inferno: Canto V)
[translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
2. (rare) Flesh-colored.
(as a verb)
1. To redden.
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
No, this, my hand, will rather
the multitudinous seas incarnadine,
making the green one, red."
--William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" (Act II, Scene 2)
(Macbeth has murdered King Duncan, at Lady Macbeth's urging,
and is horrified to see the blood on his hands.)
*Editors' note:
Lady Macbeth later has her own obsessions about washing King
Duncan's blood (or so she thinks) from her hands:
"Out, damned spot! Out I say!" (Act V, Scene I)
An interesting and very short synopsis of Macbeth, with a
comparison to the actual historical facts the play is based on,
is at:
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