英语词汇helicopter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

helicopter; whirlybird; chopper. The helicopter was named before it was invented. Helicopter came into the language about 1885 from the French hélicoptère as the name of a purely theo- retical heavier than air craft capable of horizontal and vertical flight. Such an aircraft, like the airplane itself, had been sketched by Leonardo da Vinci four centuries earlier. After many experi- ments by many inventors, Russian-born U.S. aeronautical engi- neer Igor I. Sikorsky (1889–1972) and Germany’s Henrich K. I. Focke designed the first successful modern helicopters in 1937–41. By the time of the Korean conflict (1950) helicopters were called “whirlybirds” and, more commonly, “choppers,” even though the slang word chopper also means a tommy gun, a motorcycle, the penis, and even death itself, “to get the big chopper.” A rare humorous synonym for the helicopter is heli- goflipter, while the earliest name (1926) for a helicopter pilot, helicopterist, is almost never heard anymore, jockey or chopper jockey often being the terms for the people who fly the chop- pers. See Jolly.

词汇	helicopter
词源	helicopter; whirlybird; chopper. The helicopter was named before it was invented. Helicopter came into the language about 1885 from the French hélicoptère as the name of a purely theo- retical heavier than air craft capable of horizontal and vertical flight. Such an aircraft, like the airplane itself, had been sketched by Leonardo da Vinci four centuries earlier. After many experi- ments by many inventors, Russian-born U.S. aeronautical engi- neer Igor I. Sikorsky (1889–1972) and Germany’s Henrich K. I. Focke designed the first successful modern helicopters in 1937–41. By the time of the Korean conflict (1950) helicopters were called “whirlybirds” and, more commonly, “choppers,” even though the slang word chopper also means a tommy gun, a motorcycle, the penis, and even death itself, “to get the big chopper.” A rare humorous synonym for the helicopter is heli- goflipter, while the earliest name (1926) for a helicopter pilot, helicopterist, is almost never heard anymore, jockey or chopper jockey often being the terms for the people who fly the chop- pers. See Jolly.
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