Waterloo的词源

英文词源

Waterloo

Waterloo: [19] The decisive battle at which the army of Napoleon was finally defeated by British, Dutch, and Prussian forces was fought just outside the village of Waterloo, near Brussels in Belgium, on 18 June 1815. The word Waterloo soon came to be used metaphorically for a ‘final and crushing defeat, something that puts one hors de combat for ever’. The first record of this new application comes in a letter written in 1816 by Lord Byron to his friend Thomas Moore: ‘It [Armenian] is … a Waterloo of an Alphabet’.

Waterloo (n.)

village near Brussels; the great battle there took place June 18, 1815; extended sense of "a final, crushing defeat" is first attested 1816 in letter of Lord Byron. The second element in the place name is from Flemish loo "sacred wood."

中文词源

Waterloo：滑铁卢，惨败

布鲁塞尔村庄名，1815年拿破仑兵败之地，引申词义惨败。其字面意思即水中树林。

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waterloo（惨败）：拿破仑惨遭失败的比利时小镇滑铁卢

滑铁卢（Waterloo）是比利时的一个小镇，在比利时首都布鲁塞尔以南大约二十公里。1815年，在比利时的滑铁卢，拿破仑率领法军与英国、普鲁士联军展开激战，法军惨败。随后，拿破仑以退位结束了其政治生涯。从此以后，滑铁卢（Waterloo）的名字响彻世界。即使对它毫不了解的人也常常把它的名字挂在嘴边，说起某人在某场官司或某场比赛中遭到失败时，就必定会说，某某遭遇了滑铁卢。

Waterloo：[,wɔ:tə'lu:] 滑铁卢，惨败，致命打击

Waterloo：滑铁卢，惨败

布鲁塞尔村庄名，1815 年拿破仑兵败之地，引申词义惨败。其字面意思即水中树林。