英语词汇benedict arnold的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Benedict Arnold. quisling and a few others have endured, but most traitors have not been included in the dictionaries. Benedict Arnold is an exception. The term has been used for over 200 years in America, and is still a common one. Every schoolboy knows the story of how General Benedict Arnold plotted to deliver the garrison at West Point to Major John An- dré, how the plot failed with André’s capture and how Arnold fled to the British army. Less familiar are the facts that Arnold was a brilliant soldier and that his treason was provoked by shabby treatment at the hands of superiors several times dur- ing the course of the Revolutionary War.

词汇	benedict arnold
词源	Benedict Arnold. quisling and a few others have endured, but most traitors have not been included in the dictionaries. Benedict Arnold is an exception. The term has been used for over 200 years in America, and is still a common one. Every schoolboy knows the story of how General Benedict Arnold plotted to deliver the garrison at West Point to Major John An- dré, how the plot failed with André’s capture and how Arnold fled to the British army. Less familiar are the facts that Arnold was a brilliant soldier and that his treason was provoked by shabby treatment at the hands of superiors several times dur- ing the course of the Revolutionary War.
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