英语词汇catamaran的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

catamaran. Today’s catamaran, a vessel with two hulls held side by side some distance apart by a frame above them, bears only a slight resemblance to the rafts formed by a number of logs tied side by side at some distance apart that the British first saw in India late in the 17th century. But the Tamil katta- maran, “tied wood,” for the rafts served well as a name for “two boats tied together at a distance apart” and finally for the vessel now called a catamaran. How catamaran became a synonym for a quarrelsome woman is anybody’s guess. The term seems to have originated in America, catamaran possibly having been confused with “catamount,” a bad-tempered cat also known as the cougar.

词汇	catamaran
词源	catamaran. Today’s catamaran, a vessel with two hulls held side by side some distance apart by a frame above them, bears only a slight resemblance to the rafts formed by a number of logs tied side by side at some distance apart that the British first saw in India late in the 17th century. But the Tamil katta- maran, “tied wood,” for the rafts served well as a name for “two boats tied together at a distance apart” and finally for the vessel now called a catamaran. How catamaran became a synonym for a quarrelsome woman is anybody’s guess. The term seems to have originated in America, catamaran possibly having been confused with “catamount,” a bad-tempered cat also known as the cougar.
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