badminton的词源
英文词源
- badminton
- badminton: [19] The game of ‘battledore and shuttlecock’ has been around for some time (it appears to go back to the 16th century; the word battledore, which may come ultimately from Portuguese batedor ‘beater’, first turns up in the 15th century, meaning ‘implement for beating clothes when washing them’, but by the 16th century is being used for a ‘small racket’; while shuttlecock, so named because it is hit back and forth, first appears in the early 16th century, in a poem of John Skelton’s).
This was usually a fairly informal, improvised affair, however, and latterly played mainly by children; the modern, codified game of badminton did not begin until the 1860s or 1870s, and takes its name from the place where it was apparently first played, Badminton House, Avon, country seat of the dukes of Beaufort. (A slightly earlier application of the word badminton had been to a cooling summer drink, a species of claret cup.)
- badminton (n.)
- 1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona. The place name is Old English Badimyncgtun (972), "estate of (a man called) Baduhelm."
中文词源
badminton（羽毛球运动）：来自诞生羽毛球运动的英国庄园
在英语中，羽毛球运动被称为badminton。这个单词原本是一个地名，是19世纪中期英国一位鲍菲特公爵在格洛斯特郡一座庄园的名称。有一天，公爵的手下从当时英国的殖民地印度带回一种叫做Poona的玩具，它是一块插有羽毛的圆形软木，由两人手持木板相向拍打。公爵见后很感兴趣，仿照网球拍的样式对球拍进行了改造，并在庄园中作为招待宾客的一项娱乐手段。因此，羽毛球这种运动迅速在英国发展起来。由于它起源于badminton庄园，所以人们把它称作badminton。值得注意的是，badminton指的是羽毛球运动，而在羽毛球运动中被来回击打的那个球，在英语中被称作shuttlecock，shuttle的意思就是“来回，往返”。而羽毛球拍和网球拍一样都被称作racket，因为它们本来就是同一种拍子，略有变化而已。
badminton：['bædmɪnt(ə)n] n.羽毛球运动
shuttlecock：['ʃʌt(ə)lkɒk] n.羽毛球，毽子
racket： ['rækɪt] n.（网球或羽毛球）球拍
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：badminton 词源，badminton 含义。
因起源于英国Duke of Beaufort Badminton庄园而得名。Badmin, 人名。-ton, 城镇，庄园，同town.
羽毛球运动是19世纪时由印度传人英国的，很可能是古老的儿童板羽球发展而来。驻印度英国军官喜欢在室外打这种球，遂使它得以传播。英国波弗特公爵(the Duke of Beaufort)在格洛斯特郡(Gloucestershire）有个庄园叫Badminton。据说羽毛球运动在1873年发源于此，故英语称badminton。
你也许有想到，badminton原来是一个地名，这是19世纪末英国波弗特公爵在格洛斯特州的一块周长十英里的方形庄园的名称。拥有地产、庄园，在当时英国人的生活中可谓一种“时尚”。Badminton这个词曾一度指“红葡萄酒”或“苏打水”。这当然同在这块土地上的生活分不开，不过后来人们渐渐不再这样使用这个词。
1873年，英国人首次将羽毛球运动从印度搬到英国的这个庄园里来，不久公爵的这块领地的名称的小写badminton便成了这项体育运动的代名词。
