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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acne varioliformis miliaris
aerial form
algorithmic rules
angle of twist
anti-insulinase
aquisition of patent
Astacus japonicus
Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules
bartsches
base ion exchange
benzoylimino
blazarlike activity
bonnethead
branles
cade
Chwaszczyno
cottonize
Crysocolla
cylindrical jaw
deagnostic output file
elevator driving rack
environment noise
equiss
erosion resistance
evaporation from water surface
extrusion prevention
fart tip
fiber-optic bundle
firmianas
flatteresses
free amino acids (faa)
fresh air room
geo-
geseous conduction rectifier
happy shop
hydrologic regimen
hydrolytic degradatiion
in situ field measurement
index of speciality
infant mortality
isometrically
kalyvas
keystone corner
launder sand slicer
line-to-line correlation
mathie seed
matrimonial guilt
microlance
microsieve
monoecious
mulos
nm (nanometer)
odd men out
oil in water type coolant
omentin
open-ended working group
origination fee
otophysans
personal interests
phenomes
pingy
PoE injector
precisionaire
preview dialer
quartz-porphyrite
quick action cylinder cap
RACWA
recovery in kind
run through something
scattering diffusion tensor
Scincella
scroller
self-blamer
sick day
sixty four thousand dollar question
span check
steaming the medicinal herbs
stinkbomb
Stirling, Mt.
stosstheraphy
strathkelvin
sulphur free-cutting steel
sunny yellow
surface micelle
tachyplesin
tack sth on
tail-end booster
telescopic system
three way pipe
Torikabuto-yama
transfilter
translucently
Tugaske
two cents(')worth
underdetection
unisol process
uranosilite
vf
weard
Youngs, L.
zehr
zygomaticoorbital foramen