英语词汇rescue的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	rescue
词源	rescue [ME] Rescue is from Old French rescoure based on Latin excutere ‘shake out, discard’. The prefix re- intensifies the sense. The notion here is of ‘shaking out’ a captive from the hands of an enemy.
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