| 词源 |
caput. In medieval times, during bubonic plague epidemics, German burial squads counted each corpse as a head, from the Latin caput, “head,” the term used so often that the German ka putt came to mean anything “broken, wrecked, unserviceable, finished.” This is probably the origin of the English slang term caput, used in both England and America for “all gone, no more, done for.” |