| 词汇 | awol |
| 词源 | AWOL. This commonly used abbreviation meaning “absent without leave” originated during the Civil War, according to H. L. Mencken (The American Language, supplement I, 1945): “[In the Confederate Army] unwarranted absences of short du- ration were often unpunished and in other cases offenders re- ceived such trivial sentences as reprimand by a company officer, digging a stump, carrying a rail for a hour or two, wearing a placard inscribed with the letters AWOL.” |
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