英语词汇martinet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

martinet. Colonel Martinet, the strict disciplinarian from whose name the term martinet originated, was “accidentally” killed by his own troops while leading an assault at the siege of Duisberg in 1672. Jean Martinet, sometimes called the marquis de Martinet, had been a lieutenant colonel of the king’s regi- ment of foot and inspector general of infantry in the army of France’s Louis XIV. The Grand Monarch, then only 22, and his brilliant 19-year-old war minister the marquis de Louvois had formed a model standing army in 1660, replacing the old sys- tem where the state hired entire units for its army—a regiment, for example, being in the employ of its colonel and a company in the pay of its captain. But these old units had to be molded together into an efficient, homogeneous group and Colonel Martinet’s exacting work with the Sun King’s own Royal Regi- ment made him just the man for the job. As inspector general, Martinet was assigned the task of designing all drill systems for the new army and training its infantrymen to fight as a unit in battle. His methods, several of them named for him, were later copied by many European countries. In the process, however, his strict and tedious drills made Martinet’s name synonymous with not only sharp military efficiency but stern spit-and-polish discipline inflicted by a goose-stepping stickler for details, who insists that his men carry out his rigid orders as if they were puppets. Today his name is applied to excessively severe sol- diers and civilians alike. See also martins.

词汇	martinet
词源	martinet. Colonel Martinet, the strict disciplinarian from whose name the term martinet originated, was “accidentally” killed by his own troops while leading an assault at the siege of Duisberg in 1672. Jean Martinet, sometimes called the marquis de Martinet, had been a lieutenant colonel of the king’s regi- ment of foot and inspector general of infantry in the army of France’s Louis XIV. The Grand Monarch, then only 22, and his brilliant 19-year-old war minister the marquis de Louvois had formed a model standing army in 1660, replacing the old sys- tem where the state hired entire units for its army—a regiment, for example, being in the employ of its colonel and a company in the pay of its captain. But these old units had to be molded together into an efficient, homogeneous group and Colonel Martinet’s exacting work with the Sun King’s own Royal Regi- ment made him just the man for the job. As inspector general, Martinet was assigned the task of designing all drill systems for the new army and training its infantrymen to fight as a unit in battle. His methods, several of them named for him, were later copied by many European countries. In the process, however, his strict and tedious drills made Martinet’s name synonymous with not only sharp military efficiency but stern spit-and-polish discipline inflicted by a goose-stepping stickler for details, who insists that his men carry out his rigid orders as if they were puppets. Today his name is applied to excessively severe sol- diers and civilians alike. See also martins.
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