backgammon的词源
英文词源
- backgammon
- backgammon: [17] Backgammon appears to mean literally ‘back game’, although the reason for the name is far from clear (gammon had been used since at least the early 18th century for a particular type of victory in the game, but it is hard to say whether the term for the victory came from the term for the game, or vice versa). Either way, gammon represents Old English gamen, the ancestor of modern English game. The game backgammon goes back far further than the 17th century, of course, but before that it was called tables in English.
=> game - backgammon (n.)
- 1640s, baggammon, the second element from Middle English gamen, ancestor of game; the first element apparently because pieces sometimes are forced to go "back." Known 13c.-17c. as tables.
中文词源
西洋双陆棋（backgammon）是一种古老的棋盘游戏，据说有5000年的历史。在游戏中，根据棋子骰子的点数决定选手可以移动棋子的步数。首位把所有棋子移离棋盘的玩者可获得胜利。双陆棋在英语中被称为backgammon是因为在游戏中，选手经常会迫使对方棋子回退，故此称为back game。gammon是game的早期拼写方式，backgammon就是back game。
backgammon：['bækgæmən] n.西洋双陆棋
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：backgammon 词源，backgammon 含义。
back , 后。-gammon, 同game . 指一种可以向后走的棋盘游戏。
这是一种双方各有十五枚棋子、掷骰子决定行棋格数的游戏。人们曾在古代巴比伦王国一位王后的墓穴中发掘出一块已有五千年历史的镶底精美的十五子棋的棋盘。
Backgammon的字面含义是“回子游戏”。早期英语的“游戏”不写作game，而是写作gamen，因此，backgammon即back game，因为玩这种游戏时，棋子常被“送回”对方，再重新放入棋盘。
