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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adventurings
air-pressure water system
alveololingual
amount of deviation of out-of-gauge goods
anticurl coating
argyrias
Azdavay
beater finger grate
beturbanned
bis-isoquinoline
breed ill blood
buyer's
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cardiotoxic
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East Central German
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ethno-graphic
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gynarchy
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maximum permissible errors
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missing plot technique
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monochromatic scheme
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musculus quadratus labii superioris
myeloplegia
noreximide
nothing for it but
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