英语词汇touch off的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	touch off
词源	touch off. To kill. In Garden of Beasts (2004), a novel set in the 1930s, Jeffrey Deaver has one of his characters say he used the term touch off instead of kill: “It was the phrase Sergeant Alvin York used to describe killing enemy soldiers during the war [World War I]. It made Paul feel less like a punk to use the term that a war hero did.”
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