英语词汇battering ram的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

battering ram. Romans of old called this device for battering down the walls of an enemy city an aries (“ram”), alluding to the male sheep and its powerful butting horns, and our term ram or battering ram is just a translation of the Latin. The long log, sometimes hung on chains, was used until the invention of the cannon and has been depicted in hundreds of film epics. It has never to my knowledge been shown in the form of a huge ram’s head, although some ancient armies actually constructed it that way.

词汇	battering ram
词源	battering ram. Romans of old called this device for battering down the walls of an enemy city an aries (“ram”), alluding to the male sheep and its powerful butting horns, and our term ram or battering ram is just a translation of the Latin. The long log, sometimes hung on chains, was used until the invention of the cannon and has been depicted in hundreds of film epics. It has never to my knowledge been shown in the form of a huge ram’s head, although some ancient armies actually constructed it that way.
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