英语词汇scorch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	scorch
词源	scorch; scorched-earth policy. The practice of invaded countries retreating before the enemy and burning all the land in his path, leaving nothing for his troops is as old as war itself, but it was first called the scorched-earth policy at the time when the Japanese invaded China in 1937. It became more fa- miliar when the Nazis invaded Russia in World War II. Scorch as a cooking term, by the way, derives from the Old English scorkle, which at first meant to skin meat by searing.
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