英语词汇bingo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bingo! Nineteenth-century Christian missionaries intro- duced the game of bingo to inhabitants in various parts of Afri- ca while they were enthusiastically converting people to their religion. The people associated the Christian concept of heaven, a Christian’s final reward, with a player’s shout of bingo! when he wins a game of bingo—making bingo! their word for heaven. Bingo is a corruption of beano, an early name for the game, and beano was patterned on Keno, another game of chance, which takes its name from the French quine for “five winning numbers.”

词汇	bingo
词源	bingo! Nineteenth-century Christian missionaries intro- duced the game of bingo to inhabitants in various parts of Afri- ca while they were enthusiastically converting people to their religion. The people associated the Christian concept of heaven, a Christian’s final reward, with a player’s shout of bingo! when he wins a game of bingo—making bingo! their word for heaven. Bingo is a corruption of beano, an early name for the game, and beano was patterned on Keno, another game of chance, which takes its name from the French quine for “five winning numbers.”
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