| 词源 |
spliced. This nautical expression, for “the joining together of two pieces of rope,” eventually became nautical and then gen- eral slang for “to join together in matrimony.” It is not modern slang in this sense, dating back to the 18th century, when it is first recorded in Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which contains characters like the old sea dog Commodore Howser Trunnion and boatswain Tom Pipes. |