| 词汇 | maroon |
| 词源 | maroon; marooned. Black people who lived in the distant forests of Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) and the West Indies were often runaway slaves who had found their freedom there. They were called marroons, French for “runaway black slaves,” a term first recorded in 1666. Because they lived in the wilder- ness their name came to mean “to be lost in the wilds,” and soon after began to be used to describe someone stranded (ma- rooned) on an island. |
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