英语词汇buckle down to work的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

buckle down to work. To buckle oneself, when English knighthood flowered, meant to fasten one’s armor, to buckle the straps securely in their holders, to prepare for battle. Soon the expression was used figuratively, meaning “to apply oneself resolutely to any task”: “Everie man . . . must buckle himself to a painful kind of life” (1574). The word buckle itself comes from the Latin buccula, a diminutive of “cheek,” which originally was used to describe the strap holder or clamp on Roman battle helmets that rested near the cheek.

词汇	buckle down to work
词源	buckle down to work. To buckle oneself, when English knighthood flowered, meant to fasten one’s armor, to buckle the straps securely in their holders, to prepare for battle. Soon the expression was used figuratively, meaning “to apply oneself resolutely to any task”: “Everie man . . . must buckle himself to a painful kind of life” (1574). The word buckle itself comes from the Latin buccula, a diminutive of “cheek,” which originally was used to describe the strap holder or clamp on Roman battle helmets that rested near the cheek.
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