英语词汇battery的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	battery
词源	battery. In his Stealing God’s Thunder (2005), historian Philip Dray claims that Benjamin Franklin “introduced the terms ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ and coined the word battery, “drawing an analogy between the panes of glass that stored and fired an electrical charge and the row of cannons in a military battery.” See steal my thunder.
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