英语词汇loggerheads的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

loggerheads. To be at loggerheads—“engaged in a violent quarrel, or a dispute”—seems to refer to medieval naval battles during which sailors bashed each other with murderous instru- ments called loggerheads. These loggerheads were long- handled devices with a solid ball of iron on the end that was heated and used to melt pitch or tar, which could be flung at the enemy. The loggerheads themselves apparently made for handy lethal weapons after the boiling pitch was used up, and mari- ners from opposing ships probably engaged each other with them, being at loggerheads. Loggerhead also has an earlier meaning of “an ignorant blockhead, a knucklehead,” and this idea of stupidity most likely contributed to the popularity of a phrase that suggests that the people at loggerheads in the dis- pute are headstrong and unwilling to compromise. The expres- sion is first recorded in 1685.

词汇	loggerheads
词源	loggerheads. To be at loggerheads—“engaged in a violent quarrel, or a dispute”—seems to refer to medieval naval battles during which sailors bashed each other with murderous instru- ments called loggerheads. These loggerheads were long- handled devices with a solid ball of iron on the end that was heated and used to melt pitch or tar, which could be flung at the enemy. The loggerheads themselves apparently made for handy lethal weapons after the boiling pitch was used up, and mari- ners from opposing ships probably engaged each other with them, being at loggerheads. Loggerhead also has an earlier meaning of “an ignorant blockhead, a knucklehead,” and this idea of stupidity most likely contributed to the popularity of a phrase that suggests that the people at loggerheads in the dis- pute are headstrong and unwilling to compromise. The expres- sion is first recorded in 1685.
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