英语词汇big bertha的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Big Bertha. On close examination, Big Bertha, the famous cannon that shelled Paris during World War I, is not so compli- mentary to the woman for whom it was named. Big Bertha is a translation of die dicke Bertha, “the fat Bertha,” a nickname the Germans had for their 42-cm howitzers. They had in mind portly Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, whose husband owned the giant Krupp steel and munitions plant at Essen, it being mistakenly believed that the howitzers were manufactured by Krupp, whereas they were actually made at the Skoda works in Austria-Hungary. The Big Bertha aimed at Paris, an even larger gun with a range of 76 miles, began bom- barding the city on March 23, 1918, firing every third day for 140 days and killing 256 people in all. On Good Friday of that year alone its shells killed or wounded 156 worshippers in the church of St. Gervais. It was at this time that journalists resur- rected the term from the German and began applying it specifi- cally to the Paris gun.

词汇	big bertha
词源	Big Bertha. On close examination, Big Bertha, the famous cannon that shelled Paris during World War I, is not so compli- mentary to the woman for whom it was named. Big Bertha is a translation of die dicke Bertha, “the fat Bertha,” a nickname the Germans had for their 42-cm howitzers. They had in mind portly Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, whose husband owned the giant Krupp steel and munitions plant at Essen, it being mistakenly believed that the howitzers were manufactured by Krupp, whereas they were actually made at the Skoda works in Austria-Hungary. The Big Bertha aimed at Paris, an even larger gun with a range of 76 miles, began bom- barding the city on March 23, 1918, firing every third day for 140 days and killing 256 people in all. On Good Friday of that year alone its shells killed or wounded 156 worshippers in the church of St. Gervais. It was at this time that journalists resur- rected the term from the German and began applying it specifi- cally to the Paris gun.
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