英语词汇pitched battle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pitched battle
词源	pitched battle. Pitched battles were first carefully planned, even gentlemanly, battles where the battleground was chosen beforehand and tents were pitched near it by the opposing ar- mies at least several days before any fighting took place. They were called such as early as 1549, in contrast to skirmishes or chance encounters, but this term for a planned battle, where complete preparations have been made, came to mean a battle in which the opposing forces are completely and intensely en- gaged, this latter meaning far more common today.
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