英语词汇up periscope的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	up periscope
词源	up periscope! Originally used by the English on land to see over hills and bushes, its use recorded as early as 1822, the peri- scope became forever linked with submarines during World War I. At the time, up periscope! became a familiar command, and “feather” became the word for a periscope’s wake. The word periscope itself is a learned coinage from the Greek peri, “near,” and scope, “an instrument for observing.”
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