英语词汇before the mast的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	before the mast
词源	before the mast. Seamen on sailing ships in days past always bunked in the forecastle (fo’c’sle), literally “before the mast,” which accounts for the title of Richard Henry Dana’s classic Two Years Before the Mast (1840). But before the mast also means to be hauled before the mast, where the captain held court, to be tried for some offense.
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