| 词汇 | first rate etc |
| 词源 | first rate, etc. From Elizabethan times up until the 19th cen- tury, British warships were rated by the number of guns they carried and the weight of those guns, rather than by the weight of the ships themselves. Six rates, or categories, were applied, a mighty first-rate ship being the highest. Before long these tech- nical navy terms were being used to describe degrees of excel- lence generally. |
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