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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abstract empiricism
act term
Aeschynanthus longicaulis
anticipation adaptation
arteriovenal
atiyah
Avellis'syndrome
b. intratendinea olecrani
balanced steel ratio
begin anew
benmara creek
bethlehem-judahs
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bottom pouring ladle
burette with rubber pipe
buyer of foreign maker
Caesalpinioideae
chat about
combined harvester
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constant speed unit
coronary ligament of liver
crooked path
Darlingtonia
default format statement
double canon
ear speculum
electric fields
Endophenolphthalein
epinicia
fan ratio
flattening rolls
Flogar
flooxing
footstones
gamut
global orbiting navigation satellite system
hand filling
have the heart to do something
hear
home sign
Hydroxyzini
impunctate
initial deposit
jamb
La Fayette, Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de
lambach
Lasianthus trichophlebus
leaf-eared
LEGM
lumensecond
midperpendicular plane
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msb (metropolitan significant bit)
nigra cataracta
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photographic surveying
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post-layout simulator
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prostanol
pseudoscalar meson
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racketeer
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seedling bed
self-contained underwater breathing apparatus(scuba)
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Tol'ka
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