bombshell 的詞源
bombshell(n.)
此外, bomb-shell,1708年,指“投擲後爆炸的迫擊炮彈”,源自 bomb(名詞)+ shell(名詞)。
BOMB, or BOMB SHELL, now called simply Shell (Fr. Bombe). A hollow iron ball or shell filled with gunpowder, having a vent or fuze-hole into which a fuzee is fitted to set the powder on fire after the shell is thrown out of a mortar. This destructive missile is intended to do injury both by its force in falling, and by bursting after it falls. [Arthur Young, "Nautical Dictionary," London, 1863]
炸彈,或炸彈殼,現在簡稱爲 Shell(法語 Bombe)。一種空心的鐵球或炮彈,內裝火藥,有一個通風孔或引信孔,用於放置引信,以在炮彈被拋出迫擊炮後點燃火藥。這種破壞性的導彈旨在通過其墜落的力量和墜落後的爆炸造成傷害。[亞瑟·楊,《航海詞典》,倫敦,1863年]
1859年開始有“破壞性或毀滅性的事物或事件”的比喻意義。與一個“活力或體格驚人”的美女有關,尤其是一個金髮女郎,這一意義可以追溯到1942年。"Bombshell" 作爲以美國金髮女演員簡·哈洛(1911-1937)爲主角的電影的標題,據說是基於電影明星克拉拉·鮑的生活而改編的,出自1933年。
The producers of the current hilarious Jean Harlow-Lee Tracy photoplay were not satisfied with the original title "Bombshell" so they renamed it "The Blond Bombshell." We wonder, in passing, why they didn't call it "The Private Life of Clara Bow" originally and let it go at that. [The Oklahoma News, Nov. 19, 1933]
目前這部搞笑的簡·哈洛-李·特雷西的電影的製片人對原來的標題“炸彈”不滿意,所以他們將其改名爲“金髮炸彈”。我們不禁想知道,爲什麼他們最初不將其命名爲“克拉拉·鮑的私人生活”,然後就此打住呢。[《俄克拉荷馬新聞》,1933年11月19日]
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