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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accident spot
anklebone
attributable share value
average price
ballistical curve
biased upward
Bisuc
Blackfriars Theatre
calculated carbon aromaticity index
canales spinalis
cancellation notice
Carsac-Aillac
Chasseral
clo.
Conradson carbon apparatus
cross-discipline
dual storage
electrooptical system
Elliott treatment
erosion pit
expect too much of
fanweeds
fluming water
frozen specific heat
gemma
glycerophosphocholines
glyphography
group reagent
hand-won face
hesitators
Hi-Def
high speed centerless grinding machine
I-n-Touft
ignorable
indexed data descriptor
invitation for subscription
irmgard
Jegindφ
joint Budin's
Kar.
keel bursitis
labelled atoms (tagged atoms)
liberde
marshallist
mechanics of loose media
meta-toluidine
Miani
Microkernels
microsclerotial
milk-walk
Minigwal, L.
mononymic
moving electron
mucormycotic disease
Neighbornode
neoherculine
nephrectomize
night-spell
Niiza
nonidempotent
nonstriker
notice to airmen
optical encoders
out-of-hand
Parafossarulus striatulus
patternization
PC-MAG
petroleum economics
physical biochemistry
pignose
pilwo
poke fn at
polymer solid electrolyte
porodic
post-office
propulsion efficiency
pseudozygadenine
ramalic acid
rcpt
reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer
redige
rociclovir
screw center height
Shchuger
singlings
slag pancake
spaws
stock classes
storing of information
strap seam
supergroup reference pilot
synthesionyia nudiseta
tamanka tagala
Tan Chau
turned sorts
unbooklearned
Urmal R.
velocity-modulated valve
wands
with starting eyes
wristbands
zinc oxide (zinc white)