英语词汇send to coventry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

send to Coventry. The historic city of Coventry in England may have been built near and taken its name from Cofa’s tree, in which case the otherwise anonymous Cofa family name is remembered in at least three words or phrases. The most com- mon of these means boycotting a person by refusing to associ- ate or have dealings with him, which is called sending him to Coventry. This phrase is of uncertain origin, arising either be- cause Royalist prisoners were sent to the staunchly Puritan town during the Great Rebellion, or due to the fact that Coven- try was at one time so antimilitary that any soldier posted there found himself cut off from all social intercourse, the townspeo- ple even refusing to talk to the troops. The Germans with their devastating bombings laid waste to much of Coventry in World War II, destroying 70,000 homes, all but the great spire of the 14th-century Cathedral of St. Michael, and many other historic sites, which led to the term to coventrate—to attempt to bomb a city out of existence. See also true blue.

词汇	send to coventry
词源	send to Coventry. The historic city of Coventry in England may have been built near and taken its name from Cofa’s tree, in which case the otherwise anonymous Cofa family name is remembered in at least three words or phrases. The most com- mon of these means boycotting a person by refusing to associ- ate or have dealings with him, which is called sending him to Coventry. This phrase is of uncertain origin, arising either be- cause Royalist prisoners were sent to the staunchly Puritan town during the Great Rebellion, or due to the fact that Coven- try was at one time so antimilitary that any soldier posted there found himself cut off from all social intercourse, the townspeo- ple even refusing to talk to the troops. The Germans with their devastating bombings laid waste to much of Coventry in World War II, destroying 70,000 homes, all but the great spire of the 14th-century Cathedral of St. Michael, and many other historic sites, which led to the term to coventrate—to attempt to bomb a city out of existence. See also true blue.
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