英语词汇plain sailing的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	plain sailing
词源	plain sailing. In technical nautical language plane sailing means determining a ship’s position on the assumption that the earth is flat and the ship is on a plane; this is a simple, straight- forward method of computing distance. But in the 19th century, the words entered general use as an expression meaning “per- fectly straightforward action, a course of action that there need be no hesitation about.” The word plane came to be spelled plain and has remained that way ever since.
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