英语词汇horse latitudes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

horse latitudes. The horse latitudes, regions of calm found at 30 degrees north and south latitudes, may be so named because sailing ships carrying horses to America became becalmed and had to throw horses overboard in order to lighten the vessels and to take advantage of any slight breeze that did blow up. However, the name may simply be a translation of golfo de las yeguas, “gulf of the mares,” which was the Spanish name for the ocean between Spain and the Canary Islands and compares the supposed fickleness of mares with the fickle winds in these latitudes.

词汇	horse latitudes
词源	horse latitudes. The horse latitudes, regions of calm found at 30 degrees north and south latitudes, may be so named because sailing ships carrying horses to America became becalmed and had to throw horses overboard in order to lighten the vessels and to take advantage of any slight breeze that did blow up. However, the name may simply be a translation of golfo de las yeguas, “gulf of the mares,” which was the Spanish name for the ocean between Spain and the Canary Islands and compares the supposed fickleness of mares with the fickle winds in these latitudes.
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