英语词汇hull down over the horizon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hull down over the horizon
词源	hull down over the horizon. Sailors have long—no one knows how long—used this phrase to describe the phenomenon of the masts of an approaching ship appearing before her hull does. The phenomenon itself is one way observant people proved to themselves that the world was round and not flat long before Magellan’s men circumnavigated the globe in 1522.
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