英语词汇down the hatch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	down the hatch
词源	down the hatch! This toast originated in the 18th-century British navy, the mouth compared to the hatches, or openings, leading to various parts of a ship. Hatch comes from the Old En- glish haecc, grating or hatch. It is unrelated to the verb hatch, to incubate, which derives from the Greek hecken, meaning the same.
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