英语词汇old ironsides的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Old Ironsides. Built six months after the Constellation, the Constitution is America’s oldest warship still afloat and in commission. A national historic monument today, she is moored in Boston Harbor flying the flag of the commandant of the First Naval District. The high point of her illustrious career came on August 19, 1812, when she engaged and de- feated the British frigate Guerrière off Nova Scotia. During the battle an American sailor, watching British shots fall into the sea, cried: “Huzza! Her sides are made of iron!” and Old Ironsides she has been since that day. In 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes, hearing that she was to be sold by the Navy, wrote his famous poem “Old Ironsides” in protest and she was saved.

词汇	old ironsides
词源	Old Ironsides. Built six months after the Constellation, the Constitution is America’s oldest warship still afloat and in commission. A national historic monument today, she is moored in Boston Harbor flying the flag of the commandant of the First Naval District. The high point of her illustrious career came on August 19, 1812, when she engaged and de- feated the British frigate Guerrière off Nova Scotia. During the battle an American sailor, watching British shots fall into the sea, cried: “Huzza! Her sides are made of iron!” and Old Ironsides she has been since that day. In 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes, hearing that she was to be sold by the Navy, wrote his famous poem “Old Ironsides” in protest and she was saved.
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