英语词汇take the wind out of one-s sails的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	take the wind out of one-s sails
词源	take the wind out of one’s sails. To stop or slow somebody down. Pirate ships often sailed to the windward of a merchant ship, cutting off the wind blowing on its sails and slowing the ship down so that they could board. Later, the same technique came to be used in yacht racing and soon the term was being used figuratively.
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