Bloomsbury
英 [ˈblu:mzˌberi:, -bəri:, -bri:]
美 [ˈblumzˌbɛri, -bəri, -bri]
- n. 布鲁姆斯伯里（英国中伦敦附近）
英语词源
- Bloomsbury
- 1910, in reference to the set of Bohemian writers, artists, and intellectuals (including E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes) centered on Lytton Strachey; so called from the London neighborhood where several lived and worked.
Women in love with buggers and buggers in love with womanizers, I don't know what the world is coming to. [Lytton Strachey]
The place name is recorded 1291 as Blemondesberi "manor held by the Blemond family," from Blémont in France. It was laid out for housing in 17c., fashionable from 18c.
权威例句
- 1. Alastair Upton : The Bloomsbury group was never a club, it was just a collection of friends.
- 布伦斯贝瑞算不上是俱乐部, 它只是普通的朋友聚会.
- 2. Chelsea and Bloomsbury have taken the place of Hampstead, Notting Hill Gate, and High Street, Kensington.
- 柴尔西和布鲁姆斯伯里取代了汉普斯台德 、 诺廷山门 、 高街和肯星顿的地位.