英语词汇used up的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

used up; wasted. Wasted, for “killed,” is a slang of recent times, dating back to about 1955, at least in the sense of “to completely destroy,” to lay waste to. Far older is used up, also meaning “killed,” which originated in 1740 at the battle of Cartagena when General John Guise sent a message to his commander in chief asking him to send more grenadiers, for those he had were all “used up.” All of the 1,200 men Guise had sent to attack the castle of St. Lazar had been killed or badly wounded within a couple of hours.

词汇	used up
词源	used up; wasted. Wasted, for “killed,” is a slang of recent times, dating back to about 1955, at least in the sense of “to completely destroy,” to lay waste to. Far older is used up, also meaning “killed,” which originated in 1740 at the battle of Cartagena when General John Guise sent a message to his commander in chief asking him to send more grenadiers, for those he had were all “used up.” All of the 1,200 men Guise had sent to attack the castle of St. Lazar had been killed or badly wounded within a couple of hours.
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