英语词汇first string的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

first string; second string. Archers in medieval times are re- sponsible for these terms, so common on athletic fields today in describing first and second teams. An archer was only as good as the bowstring on the stout, five-foot English longbow, and in competitions a marksman always carried two—a fyrst- string to be used as his best and a second to be held in reserve lest the other should break. This led to the popular Elizabethan saying two strings to his bow, meaning to carry something in re- serve in case of accident, which fathered our first string and sec- ond string.

词汇	first string
词源	first string; second string. Archers in medieval times are re- sponsible for these terms, so common on athletic fields today in describing first and second teams. An archer was only as good as the bowstring on the stout, five-foot English longbow, and in competitions a marksman always carried two—a fyrst- string to be used as his best and a second to be held in reserve lest the other should break. This led to the popular Elizabethan saying two strings to his bow, meaning to carry something in re- serve in case of accident, which fathered our first string and sec- ond string.
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