英语词汇crossing the bar的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

crossing the bar. To cross the bar can mean to die or to cross from one side to another, over a bar or sandbar that separates the two. In this sense the phrase may derive from Lord Tennys- on’s poem “Crossing the Bar,” which he wished to be published as the last poem in any collection of his work. The four-stanza poem—with the last lines “I hope to see my Pilot face to face / When I have crost the bar”—was written in October 1889, three years before the poet’s death, as he crossed the Solent, the channel between the Isle of Wight and England’s mainland. The celebrated poem took only a few moments to write, Tenny- son jotting down the 16 lines (almost unchanged in the final version) on an old envelope.

词汇	crossing the bar
词源	crossing the bar. To cross the bar can mean to die or to cross from one side to another, over a bar or sandbar that separates the two. In this sense the phrase may derive from Lord Tennys- on’s poem “Crossing the Bar,” which he wished to be published as the last poem in any collection of his work. The four-stanza poem—with the last lines “I hope to see my Pilot face to face / When I have crost the bar”—was written in October 1889, three years before the poet’s death, as he crossed the Solent, the channel between the Isle of Wight and England’s mainland. The celebrated poem took only a few moments to write, Tenny- son jotting down the 16 lines (almost unchanged in the final version) on an old envelope.
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