英语词汇sjambok rule的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sjambok rule
词源	Sjambok rule. Sjambok, for “a rhino-hide whip,” is said to come from Malay and ultimately from Urdu. The word, however, is associated with the Boers of South Africa, sjambok rule mean- ing a repressive tyrannical rule of whips and violence. The word is an international one, recorded in the dictionaries of many lan- guages. It seems to have come into English in the first quarter of the 19th century.
随便看	wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows what fools these mortals be what goes around comes around what goes up must come down what hath god wrought what-s good for general motors is good for the country

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