英语词汇wooden walls的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wooden walls
词源	wooden walls. Wooden walls is an old term for England’s warships, which protected the country from invasion like a great wooden wall in the water that the enemy could not get by. The term, however, had been used long before the English first recorded it in 1598, for Themistocles called the ships of ancient Athens “wooden walls.” Our watery and wooden walls was an English variation on the phrase.
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