Dracula的词源

英文词源

Dracula (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
the vampire from in Bram Stoker's novel (1897). It was a surname of Prince Vlad II of Wallachia (d.1476), and means in Romanian "son of Dracul," literally "the dragon," from the name and emblem taken by Vlad's father, also named Vlad, c. 1431 when he joined the Order of the Dragon, founded 1418 by Sigismund the Glorious of Hungary to defend the Christian religion from the Turks and crush heretics and schismatics.

中文词源

Dracula:吸血鬼德古拉

来自爱尔兰小说家Bram Stoker创造的吸血鬼小说。Dracula为主人公姓氏,其字面意思为眼睛锐利的,词源同dragon. 参照电影《惊情四百年》。

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