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| Nauticisms - 3 |
| 2003年09月02日15:58:39 网易教育 Lynda Williams |
You may not have noticed, but even if you're a total landlubber, you use the language of the sea. Words once reserved for sailing ships have made their way into ordinary idiom. Stand by for some salty language, today on Our Ocean World.
(SFX: Recorded voice: "To make reservations, press one . . ."
Then waves, under)
You make plane reservations, and you ask for a bulkhead seat. Did you ever wonder what a bulkhead IS? Sure, it's the wall that separates you from the passengers in first class. But the term comes from an Old Norse word meaning a ship's hold. In sailing ships, wooden bulkheads divided the hold into smaller, watertight compartments where cargo was stowed.
Do you like sports cars? How about the Corvette? That name is carefully calculated to appeal to adventurous types. The original corvette was a warship. It was fairly small, and carried just a few guns, but it was very fast. Its name comes from a Dutch word meaning "ship used for pursuit."
(SFX: waves continue )
Here's an ocean word that you often hear in business dealings, when people talk about a company's "flagship" store. That term comes from days when navies were fleets of sailing vessels. Flagships really did fly a special flag. It showed that the commander of the fleet was on board. The name eventually came to indicate the best cruise ship on a passenger line, and ultimately, the best of anything. From Washington, I'm Marilyn Cooley
(SFX: harbor ambience, up and out)
Our Ocean World is made possible by Royal Caribbean International and the research labs onboard its new ship, Explorer of the Seas - Royal Caribbean dot com.
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