英语词汇thin red line of heroes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

thin red line of heroes. “The Russians dashed on toward that thin-red line streak tipped with a line of steel,” wrote W. H. Russell, the greatest war correspondent of his day, in re- porting the Battle of Balaclava for the London Times. He was describing the 93rd Highland Infantry which hadn’t formed in a defensive square. Rudyard Kipling scoffed at this romantic notion in his poem “Tommy,” where his British soldier re- marks about a thin red line of ’eroes and later adds “We aren’t no thin red ’eroes.”

词汇	thin red line of heroes
词源	thin red line of heroes. “The Russians dashed on toward that thin-red line streak tipped with a line of steel,” wrote W. H. Russell, the greatest war correspondent of his day, in re- porting the Battle of Balaclava for the London Times. He was describing the 93rd Highland Infantry which hadn’t formed in a defensive square. Rudyard Kipling scoffed at this romantic notion in his poem “Tommy,” where his British soldier re- marks about a thin red line of ’eroes and later adds “We aren’t no thin red ’eroes.”
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