英语词汇life-boat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

life-boat. The OED gives an 1801 first recorded use of this word for “a boat specially constructed for saving lives in cases of loss of a vessel at sea.” A British patent had been granted for such an unsubmergible boat in 1785, but it had not been called a life-boat. The boat was so named, according to a 1802 source quoted in the OED, “in consequence of the lives of many persons shipwrecked having been preserved by it.” In Ameri- can slang a life-boat is a pardon or commutation of a prison sentence, usually a death sentence.

词汇	life-boat
词源	life-boat. The OED gives an 1801 first recorded use of this word for “a boat specially constructed for saving lives in cases of loss of a vessel at sea.” A British patent had been granted for such an unsubmergible boat in 1785, but it had not been called a life-boat. The boat was so named, according to a 1802 source quoted in the OED, “in consequence of the lives of many persons shipwrecked having been preserved by it.” In Ameri- can slang a life-boat is a pardon or commutation of a prison sentence, usually a death sentence.
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