英语词汇taps的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

taps. The military bugle call taps may simply derive from the sound of a drum tap, but it could be a corruption of the British drum call tattoo, as the recorded first use of the latter word (in 1644) indicates: “If anyone shall be found tiplinge or drinkinge in any Taverne, Inne, or Alehouse after the houre of nyne of the clock at night, when the tap-too beates, hee shall pay 2S.6d.” In fact, tap-too was still being used for tattoo in 1833, 11 years af- ter the Americanism taps is first recorded. Tattoo itself may de- rive from the Dutch tap toe, “to close or turn off the tap,” which 17th-century Dutch tavern owners were required to do by mili- tary authorities at a certain time every evening, so that soldiers wouldn’t be tempted to stay out too late. In any case taps was first a drumroll in the American army, meaning “put out the lights and go to bed.” The haunting tune we now know as taps was written by Union general Daniel Butterfield with the aid of his bugler, Lt. Oliver Wilcox Norton. Now also used at the end of a soldier’s burial, its words are: Put out the lights,/ Go to sleep,/ Go to sleep, Go to sleep, Go to sleep./ Put out the lights,/ Go to sleep,/ Go to sleep.” See tattoo.

词汇	taps
词源	taps. The military bugle call taps may simply derive from the sound of a drum tap, but it could be a corruption of the British drum call tattoo, as the recorded first use of the latter word (in 1644) indicates: “If anyone shall be found tiplinge or drinkinge in any Taverne, Inne, or Alehouse after the houre of nyne of the clock at night, when the tap-too beates, hee shall pay 2S.6d.” In fact, tap-too was still being used for tattoo in 1833, 11 years af- ter the Americanism taps is first recorded. Tattoo itself may de- rive from the Dutch tap toe, “to close or turn off the tap,” which 17th-century Dutch tavern owners were required to do by mili- tary authorities at a certain time every evening, so that soldiers wouldn’t be tempted to stay out too late. In any case taps was first a drumroll in the American army, meaning “put out the lights and go to bed.” The haunting tune we now know as taps was written by Union general Daniel Butterfield with the aid of his bugler, Lt. Oliver Wilcox Norton. Now also used at the end of a soldier’s burial, its words are: Put out the lights,/ Go to sleep,/ Go to sleep, Go to sleep, Go to sleep./ Put out the lights,/ Go to sleep,/ Go to sleep.” See tattoo.
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