英语词汇ballast的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ballast. Ballast, loaded in the belly of a ship to help keep it right side up, probably has its ancestor in a Teutonic word meaning “belly load,” but no one is sure, though the word has been used for centuries. Everything from rocks to gold bars has been used for ballast. After unloading its emergency cargo at Corregidor in the Philippines in February 1941, at the beginning of World War II, the submarine U.S.S. Trout took on the most valuable ballast in the history of shipping. No other ballast was available, and the Trout traveled back to San Francisco loaded with Philippine gov- ernment gold bars valued at over $9 million at the time.

词汇	ballast
词源	ballast. Ballast, loaded in the belly of a ship to help keep it right side up, probably has its ancestor in a Teutonic word meaning “belly load,” but no one is sure, though the word has been used for centuries. Everything from rocks to gold bars has been used for ballast. After unloading its emergency cargo at Corregidor in the Philippines in February 1941, at the beginning of World War II, the submarine U.S.S. Trout took on the most valuable ballast in the history of shipping. No other ballast was available, and the Trout traveled back to San Francisco loaded with Philippine gov- ernment gold bars valued at over $9 million at the time.
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