英语词汇jeep的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

jeep. Eugene the Jeep, a character in Elzie Crisler (E.C.) Seg- ar’s widely syndicated comic-strip “Popeye,” had supernatural powers and could do just about anything. Introduced in 1936, the mythical little animal was well known by World War II when Willis-Overland began manufacturing their versatile, open, 11⁄4-ton, four-wheel-drive vehicles for the armed forc- es. No one knows for certain, but the vehicle was probably named a jeep by U.S. servicemen from the sound of the army term GP (general purpose), this reinforced by the popularity of Eugene the Jeep and the “jeep” noise that he constantly made. In any event, jeep was “in the air at the time,” as Menck- en says, used as the name for many contrivances, and the official army name for the vehicle—“half-ton-four-by-four command-reconnaissance car”—was definitely in need of im- provement. A peep was the term invented to distinguish the new half-ton truck from the jeep, but it never really caught on. Wrote famed World War I correspondent Ernie Pyle: “The jeep does everything. . . . It is faithful as a dog, strong as a mule, agile as a goat.”

词汇	jeep
词源	jeep. Eugene the Jeep, a character in Elzie Crisler (E.C.) Seg- ar’s widely syndicated comic-strip “Popeye,” had supernatural powers and could do just about anything. Introduced in 1936, the mythical little animal was well known by World War II when Willis-Overland began manufacturing their versatile, open, 11⁄4-ton, four-wheel-drive vehicles for the armed forc- es. No one knows for certain, but the vehicle was probably named a jeep by U.S. servicemen from the sound of the army term GP (general purpose), this reinforced by the popularity of Eugene the Jeep and the “jeep” noise that he constantly made. In any event, jeep was “in the air at the time,” as Menck- en says, used as the name for many contrivances, and the official army name for the vehicle—“half-ton-four-by-four command-reconnaissance car”—was definitely in need of im- provement. A peep was the term invented to distinguish the new half-ton truck from the jeep, but it never really caught on. Wrote famed World War I correspondent Ernie Pyle: “The jeep does everything. . . . It is faithful as a dog, strong as a mule, agile as a goat.”
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