英语词汇ship names的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ship names. There has never been any universal system for naming ships. While the British preferred frightening names such as Invincible, Devastation, Shark, and Hyena for their war- ships, the Japanese have always liked romantic names such as Siranui (Phosphorescent Foam) and Kasumi (Mist of Flowers). No rigid logic seems ever to have been at work here, although the U.S. Navy did institute a comprehensive system during World War II, prescribing that the classes of ships be named in a certain manner (battleship after states, cruisers after cities, etc). Many ship names have been used scores of times. The rev- olutionary British dreadnought of 1906, for example, was the eighth ship in English naval history to bear that name, and others have used it since. Sailors on even the most strictly disci- plined ships often called them by entirely different names; the great Missouri, for example, was sometimes jokingly called the Misery; the Brooklyn was called the Teakettle; while the Salt Lake City was often called the Swayback Marie! In 1982 the U.S. Navy broke an old tradition by naming a ship after a living per- son, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who pioneered the nuclear submarine fleet. As for small pleasure boats, the Boat Owners Association of America reports that the five most popular boat names, in order, are Security, Irish Eyes, Island Time, Sea Spirit, and Obsession. Some humorous samples of the over half a mil- lion boat names are: A Loan Again, Beeracuda, Codfather, Freudian Sloop, Out to Launch, Prozac, Sloop Du Jour, Victoria’s Sea-Cratem, and Wet Debt.

词汇	ship names
词源	ship names. There has never been any universal system for naming ships. While the British preferred frightening names such as Invincible, Devastation, Shark, and Hyena for their war- ships, the Japanese have always liked romantic names such as Siranui (Phosphorescent Foam) and Kasumi (Mist of Flowers). No rigid logic seems ever to have been at work here, although the U.S. Navy did institute a comprehensive system during World War II, prescribing that the classes of ships be named in a certain manner (battleship after states, cruisers after cities, etc). Many ship names have been used scores of times. The rev- olutionary British dreadnought of 1906, for example, was the eighth ship in English naval history to bear that name, and others have used it since. Sailors on even the most strictly disci- plined ships often called them by entirely different names; the great Missouri, for example, was sometimes jokingly called the Misery; the Brooklyn was called the Teakettle; while the Salt Lake City was often called the Swayback Marie! In 1982 the U.S. Navy broke an old tradition by naming a ship after a living per- son, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who pioneered the nuclear submarine fleet. As for small pleasure boats, the Boat Owners Association of America reports that the five most popular boat names, in order, are Security, Irish Eyes, Island Time, Sea Spirit, and Obsession. Some humorous samples of the over half a mil- lion boat names are: A Loan Again, Beeracuda, Codfather, Freudian Sloop, Out to Launch, Prozac, Sloop Du Jour, Victoria’s Sea-Cratem, and Wet Debt.
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