英语词汇spoils of war的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

spoils of war. The spoils here are valuable goods, not ruined things, and take their name from the Latin spolium, “the hide stripped from an animal.” Thus anything stripped or taken from a country after it lost a war became known as “spoils.” The word was employed in this sense as far back as 1300 and Dryden used the expression spoils-of-war in 1697. Spoil in the sense of ruined, useless, takes its meaning from the remains of animal carcasses that have been left to rot after being stripped of their skin.

词汇	spoils of war
词源	spoils of war. The spoils here are valuable goods, not ruined things, and take their name from the Latin spolium, “the hide stripped from an animal.” Thus anything stripped or taken from a country after it lost a war became known as “spoils.” The word was employed in this sense as far back as 1300 and Dryden used the expression spoils-of-war in 1697. Spoil in the sense of ruined, useless, takes its meaning from the remains of animal carcasses that have been left to rot after being stripped of their skin.
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