英语词汇alarm的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	alarm
词源	alarm; to arms. Aux armes! Aux armes! was the Old French military call when a sentry spotted the enemy coming. This be- came the English At arms! At arms! and finally the more recent To arms! To arms! Though these were all signals indicating danger, it was, strangely enough, the Italian expression all’ arme! meaning the same thing, that passed into English as al- larme and became the English word alarm, “a warning.”
随便看	wetback wet behind the ears wet blanket wet hen we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union wet one wet one-s beak wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger

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