英语词汇gull的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gull. The gull, the only bird ever to have a monument erected to it, is intimately connected with American agricultural histo- ry. All gulls take their name from the Breton guylan, for the bird, which derives from the Breton gwela, “to weep,” in refer- ence to the bird’s cry. In 1848 an invasion of grasshoppers threatened starvation for the Mormon settlers near the Great Salt Lake and it was checked only by the appearance of flocks of gulls, which devoured the crickets and saved the crops after all other means had failed. The Sea Gull Monument on Temple Square in Salt Lake City is dedicated to the species, “in grateful remembrance of the mercy of God to the Mormon pioneers.” In a similar 1947 incident, gulls destroyed a plague of caterpil- lars in Scotland. See also boll weevil.

词汇	gull
词源	gull. The gull, the only bird ever to have a monument erected to it, is intimately connected with American agricultural histo- ry. All gulls take their name from the Breton guylan, for the bird, which derives from the Breton gwela, “to weep,” in refer- ence to the bird’s cry. In 1848 an invasion of grasshoppers threatened starvation for the Mormon settlers near the Great Salt Lake and it was checked only by the appearance of flocks of gulls, which devoured the crickets and saved the crops after all other means had failed. The Sea Gull Monument on Temple Square in Salt Lake City is dedicated to the species, “in grateful remembrance of the mercy of God to the Mormon pioneers.” In a similar 1947 incident, gulls destroyed a plague of caterpil- lars in Scotland. See also boll weevil.
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