英语词汇round robin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

round robin. The round robin was originally a petition, its signatures arranged in a circular form to disguise the order of signing. Most probably it takes its name from the ruban rond, “round ribbon,” in 17th-century France, where government of- ficials devised a method of signing their petitions of grievances on ribbons that were attached to the documents in a circular form. In that way no signer could be accused of signing the document first and risk having his head chopped off for insti- gating trouble. Ruban rond later became round robin in English and the custom continued in the British navy, where petitions of grievances were signed as if the signatures were spokes of a wheel radiating from its hub. Today round robin usually means a sports tournament where all of the contestants play each other at least once and losing a match doesn’t result in immediate elimination.

词汇	round robin
词源	round robin. The round robin was originally a petition, its signatures arranged in a circular form to disguise the order of signing. Most probably it takes its name from the ruban rond, “round ribbon,” in 17th-century France, where government of- ficials devised a method of signing their petitions of grievances on ribbons that were attached to the documents in a circular form. In that way no signer could be accused of signing the document first and risk having his head chopped off for insti- gating trouble. Ruban rond later became round robin in English and the custom continued in the British navy, where petitions of grievances were signed as if the signatures were spokes of a wheel radiating from its hub. Today round robin usually means a sports tournament where all of the contestants play each other at least once and losing a match doesn’t result in immediate elimination.
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