英语词汇widow maker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	widow maker
词源	widow maker. Rudyard Kipling is the first writer to record widow maker as a synonym for the sea, in Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906): “What is a woman that you forsake her . . . To go with the old grey Widow-maker?” Widow maker was used by Shake- speare for a killer in general, however, and it seems likely that the term was used before Kipling to describe the great elemen- tary force that made widows of so many sailors’ wives. Widow maker can also describe trees or limbs that fall on people.
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