英语词汇strafe的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	strafe
词源	strafe. Strafe means “to attack enemy ground troops or for- tifications, etc., by aircraft with machine-gun fire.” The word is a joking one that the British coined from German strafe (punish) during the early years of World War I. In 1914 Ger- man author Alfred Funke had coined the popular catchphrase and salutation Gott strafe England (May God punish En- gland). The British borrowed strafe and changed its meaning, using it to mean machine-gun fire that punished the Germans.
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