| 釋義 |
Turkn.
1.native of Turkey; (appellatively) in fidel土耳其人，突厥人；（代稱）異教徒。
△As. 4. 3. 33 (32):“Why. she de-ties me. / Like Turk to Christian.”i. e. like some in-fidel challenging a Christian knight to life-and-deathcombat. 哼，她向我挑戰(zhàn)，像土耳其人對基督徒一樣。
2. heathen,infidel異教徒。
△Oth. 2. 1. 114:“Nay,itis true. or else I am a Turk. 不，是真話，否則我就是異教徒。
3. i.e. infidel. cruel and hard-hearted man,ferociousand bloodthirsty tyrant土耳其人，（借喻）異教徒，殘忍無情的人，兇惡嗜血的暴君。
Turk Gregory: i.e.Pope Gregory XIII(1572-1585).who approved the Massacre of St. Bart holomew andpromised indulgence to anyone who would murderQueen Elizabeth I.hence an inveterate foe of Eng-land殘暴的葛里高利，（指為當時英國人所痛恨的）教皇葛里高利十二世
△1H.IV. 5. 3. 46 (45):“Turk Gregory neverdid such deeds in arms as I have done this day.”殘暴的葛里高利也沒有我今天在戰(zhàn)爭中殺人這么多。
4. the Grand Turk,sultan,ruler of the Turkish empire （土耳其帝國的統(tǒng)治者）蘇丹。
△ H. V. 5. 2. 221 (208):“that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk bythe beard?”(Anachronism: the Turks did not obtain Constantinople till 1453,thirty-one years afterHenry’s death.)等他長大了，好跑到君士坦丁堡去揪土耳其國王的胡子嗎？ (按：此語有時代錯誤，僅反映r當時西歐人對土耳其帝國的對立情緒。)
△1H.VI.4. 7.73:“The Turk. thattwo-and-fifty kingdoms hath,/ Writes not so tediousa style as this.”擁有五十二個王國的土耳其蘇丹也沒有這么大串啰唆的頭銜。
Turk’s tribute: annual exaction collected from theTurkish subjects to the Sultan土耳其臣民向蘇丹繳納的貢稅。
△2H.IV. 3. 2. 333 (306):“and every third word alie,duer paid to the hearer than the Turk’s tribute.”(Delays by his subjects in paying tribute due to theSultan were punished with death.)每三句話里就準有一句謊言送進聽者的耳朵里，比對土耳其蘇丹納貢還要及時。 |