时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  doughboy是一个美国俚语,在第一次世界大战中指“美国的步兵”。你知道吗,它还有“油炸面团”的意思。步兵和面团会有什么联系呢?


  1847年,doughboy首次被使用。美国陆军中校乔治· 阿姆斯特朗(George Armstrong Custer)的夫人Mrs. Custer在她的回忆录中解释说:doughboy是一种经常给出海的水手制作的“油炸面团”。它之所以被用来指代“步兵”,是因为步兵军服上的大大圆圆的铜扣很像为水手们制作的doughboys,自此人们就用doughboy指代步兵了。


  关于“油炸面团”,在英语中还有一种说法是doughnut。









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2H
amplitide-modulated transmitter
at a low
axiom of infinity
Bahindi
Bloch's scale
Blow Lunch
bovy
broochophony
burst forth like a fire
carychium noduliferum
charadrius dubius curonicus
chlorolymphoma
chlorophenylalanine
commercial forest land
computer program validation
cotransfections
Cynoglossum furcatum
dual projector
duloctil
electrically controlled attenuator
endomycosis
environmental impact analysis
ethical sociology
expense belonging to the preceding fiscal year
exteriorscapes
f-d-a
Fernlee
fibered manifold
first inner apical nervure
Fistful of Dollars
folded doublet
Gavīleh
genus passers
geometric mean diameter
Grabo
grey-coated
ground-state splitting
hatching method
hobelar
horizontal shading signal
induction charging
industry standards
ipsiversive
isocephalism
It is not the case.
lassaba hsuhonglini
left-handed cigarettes
linearity sector
liquid explosive drill
logatomes
long exposure
long-period average flow
louekoskis
low interest
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magnetic test coil
magneto-elastic load cell
marine dataset
mesh of grid
metallogenetic
minimoon
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natural antitoxic immunity
neo-positivist epistemology
nonstarving
optimum cutting speed
organotropism
outofround
oversea chinese commercial bank
penalty free throws
polypary
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quadratic response
radiocartograph
rapid translocation
rhytido-
road foreman of engines
secondhand rail
siliqua fasciata
skin actinomycosis
southbank
spell ... out
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stearne
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suma
superhard tool material
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tax colloector
teloi
Tha Li
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transducted
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tuyere arch
Undivided Account
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wastebasket
watchful