英语词汇pell-mell的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pell-mell
词源	pell-mell. Pall-mall was an early 16th-century British game “wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do it with the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.” Apparently pall-mall players thrashed about trying to strike the ball and tripping each other up, this resulting in the now obsolete game giving us the word pell-mell, meaning “headlong, in reckless confusion.”
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