英语词汇battle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

battle. One persistent old joke has the Civil War caused by the widespread Southern pronunciation of battle. It seems that three high-ranking Northern generals stomped into a Wash- ington, D.C., saloon and shouted, “We want a bottle right away!” A Southern spy overheard them and breathlessly re- ported to General P. G. T. Beauregard: “Top Union generals say they want a battle right away!” Chivalrous Beauregard obliged, leaving the evening’s quadrille in Montgomery and proceeding to Charleston, South Carolina, where he gave them the bottle (or battle) of Fort Sumter, the first of the war. Also to wash clothes by pounding them with a paddle after they are boiled in water, “whuppin’ the dirt of ’em.” Battle in this sense is an old English word first recorded in 1570 and not used today.

词汇	battle
词源	battle. One persistent old joke has the Civil War caused by the widespread Southern pronunciation of battle. It seems that three high-ranking Northern generals stomped into a Wash- ington, D.C., saloon and shouted, “We want a bottle right away!” A Southern spy overheard them and breathlessly re- ported to General P. G. T. Beauregard: “Top Union generals say they want a battle right away!” Chivalrous Beauregard obliged, leaving the evening’s quadrille in Montgomery and proceeding to Charleston, South Carolina, where he gave them the bottle (or battle) of Fort Sumter, the first of the war. Also to wash clothes by pounding them with a paddle after they are boiled in water, “whuppin’ the dirt of ’em.” Battle in this sense is an old English word first recorded in 1570 and not used today.
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