单词 | 米诺卡岛 |
释义 | 〔bayonet〕It is not unusual for a word to come from a place name.Cheddar, from the name of a village in southwest England; hamburger, after Hamburg, Germany; and mayonnaise, possibly from Mahón, the capital of Minorca, are often found together on our tables.The wordbayonet, a very undomestic sort of word, also derives from a place name,that of Bayonne, a town in southwest France where the weapon was first made.The French wordbaïonnette could mean "a dagger or a knife" as well, and the English word bayonet is first found in 1672 with this meaning. The word is first recorded in its present sense in 1704.一个词来源于一个地名并非罕见。Cheddar 来源于英格兰西南部一个村庄的名字; hamburger 是根据德国汉堡而得名; mayonnaise 可能来自米诺卡岛的首府梅霍恩, 这些词常常可以在我们的表里一齐被找到。bayonet, 一个与母语毫无关系的词, 也是来自地名,那就是法国西南城镇巴约讷,在那里首先造出了这种武器。法语词baionnette 可能意味着“短剑或刀”,同样英语的 bayonet 于1672年第一次被发现时也具有这个意思。 在1704年这个词首次以现在的意思被记录下来〔Minorca〕A Spanish island in the Balearics of the western Mediterranean Sea. Held by the British and the French at various times during the 18th century, it was a Loyalist stronghold in the Spanish Civil War.米诺卡岛:位于地中海西部巴利阿里群岛中的一西班牙岛屿,18世纪不同时期被英国和法国曾多次占据,在西班牙内战时它是保皇派的基地 |
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