英语词汇grant give no quarter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

grant (give) no quarter. To grant (give) no quarter originally meant to spare no life of an enemy in your power, but it has come to mean “to be unmerciful.” The expression has its origin in its opposite, to grant quarter, which may derive from an an- cient agreement between the warring Spaniards and Dutch that the ransom of a soldier be a quarter of his pay. More likely the words have their origin in the old custom of a victor providing his captives temporary housing. Quarters (from the Latin quadrus, “square”), for “a residence or a place where an army lodges,” is recorded as early as 1591.

词汇	grant give no quarter
词源	grant (give) no quarter. To grant (give) no quarter originally meant to spare no life of an enemy in your power, but it has come to mean “to be unmerciful.” The expression has its origin in its opposite, to grant quarter, which may derive from an an- cient agreement between the warring Spaniards and Dutch that the ransom of a soldier be a quarter of his pay. More likely the words have their origin in the old custom of a victor providing his captives temporary housing. Quarters (from the Latin quadrus, “square”), for “a residence or a place where an army lodges,” is recorded as early as 1591.
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