air-raid 的意思
空袭; 航空袭击
air-raid 的词源
air-raid(n.)
“对地面目标的空中攻击”,这个词最早出现在1914年,来源于 air(名词1),在这里表示“由飞机进行”,加上 raid(名词)。最初是指1914年9月22日,英国对科隆和杜塞尔多夫的齐柏林飞艇基地的攻击。在德语中,这个词是 Fliegerangriff,意思是“飞行员攻击”。如果古英语在20世纪仍然存在,我们或许会用 fleogendeongrype 来表达。
One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate recognition: this was what everyone had been waiting for, what had hung for months like a shadow over everything we did, making us weary. It was the end. [Hans Erich Nossack, "Der Untergang," 1942]
人们不敢呼吸,生怕吸入那声音。那是从南方以难以想象的高度飞向汉堡的十八百架飞机的声音。我们已经经历了两百次甚至更多的空袭,其中一些非常猛烈,但这完全是新的体验。然而,人们立刻意识到:这正是大家一直在等待的,那种像阴影一样笼罩在我们一切活动之上的东西,让我们感到疲惫。这是终结的时刻。[汉斯·埃里希·诺萨克,《沉沦》,1942年]
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