英语词汇fifth column的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fifth column. During the Spanish civil war (1936–39), a group of sympathizers within Madrid worked secretly to help Francisco Franco’s Falangist rebels overthrow the Loyalist Re- public and establish his dictatorship. These sympathizers were first called the fifth column in 1936 by Lt. General Queipo de Llano, a Falangist propagandist who broadcast the following in an attempt to demoralize Loyalist forces in Madrid: “We have four columns on the battlefield against you and a fifth column inside your ranks.” When a little later that year the Falangist commander General Emilio Mola was leading four columns of Fascist troops on Loyalist Madrid from various directions, he said essentially the same thing, and so the term has often been credited to him. Fifth column is a direct transla- tion of the Spanish quinta columba and has come to mean “any group of secret agents or traitors at work within a country.” The expression gained wide currency because Ernest Heming- way used it as the title of a 1940 play about espionage in the Spanish civil war.

词汇	fifth column
词源	fifth column. During the Spanish civil war (1936–39), a group of sympathizers within Madrid worked secretly to help Francisco Franco’s Falangist rebels overthrow the Loyalist Re- public and establish his dictatorship. These sympathizers were first called the fifth column in 1936 by Lt. General Queipo de Llano, a Falangist propagandist who broadcast the following in an attempt to demoralize Loyalist forces in Madrid: “We have four columns on the battlefield against you and a fifth column inside your ranks.” When a little later that year the Falangist commander General Emilio Mola was leading four columns of Fascist troops on Loyalist Madrid from various directions, he said essentially the same thing, and so the term has often been credited to him. Fifth column is a direct transla- tion of the Spanish quinta columba and has come to mean “any group of secret agents or traitors at work within a country.” The expression gained wide currency because Ernest Heming- way used it as the title of a 1940 play about espionage in the Spanish civil war.
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