英语词汇launch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	launch
词源	launch. Deriving from French, with its first recorded nauti- cal use in about 1400, to launch did not first mean to break a bottle of champagne against a vessel and slide it into the water. Animal blood was used long before champagne as a sacrifice to the sea gods, red wine later substituted for the blood, and finally more precious champagne substituted for the red wine.
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