英语词汇war to end all wars的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

war to end all wars. World War I. The expression is not from Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress calling for a declara- tion of war against Germany in 1917, as many people believe. What Wilson said then was: “The world must be made safe for democracy.” The war to end all wars was suggested by H. G. Wells’s book The War That Will End War (1914). In announc- ing the end of World War I, Britain’s prime minister Lloyd George told the House of Commons: “I hope we may say that thus . . . came to end all wars.”

词汇	war to end all wars
词源	war to end all wars. World War I. The expression is not from Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress calling for a declara- tion of war against Germany in 1917, as many people believe. What Wilson said then was: “The world must be made safe for democracy.” The war to end all wars was suggested by H. G. Wells’s book The War That Will End War (1914). In announc- ing the end of World War I, Britain’s prime minister Lloyd George told the House of Commons: “I hope we may say that thus . . . came to end all wars.”
随便看	a-bomb aboriginal australian words aborigine aboveboard above ground and moving above one-s bend above snakes above the salt abracadabra abraham lincoln abraham lincoln brigade abraham man abraham-s bosom abram a briareus of languages a bridge too far a broken reed a brooklyn absalom absence makes the heart grow fonder absinthe absolute zero absolutism tempered by assassination absquatulate absurd