英语词汇the blitz的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the Blitz. Short for Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”), spe- cifically the German Luftwaffe’s bombing raids on London and other British cities between September 1940 and May 1941 that attempted to terrorize England into surrender. According to the New York Times (Oct. 7, 2000), more than 40,000 civil- ians, 5,000 children among them, were killed in these World War II air raids, in what was also known, in Winston Church- ill’s words, as the Battle of Britain. The word blitz is also a verb meaning to bomb or to destroy.

词汇	the blitz
词源	the Blitz. Short for Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”), spe- cifically the German Luftwaffe’s bombing raids on London and other British cities between September 1940 and May 1941 that attempted to terrorize England into surrender. According to the New York Times (Oct. 7, 2000), more than 40,000 civil- ians, 5,000 children among them, were killed in these World War II air raids, in what was also known, in Winston Church- ill’s words, as the Battle of Britain. The word blitz is also a verb meaning to bomb or to destroy.
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