deadline 的詞源
deadline(n.)
“time limit”(時間限制),1920年,美國英語報紙行話,源自於 dead(死亡的)+ line(線)。可能受到早期用法(1864年)的影響,該用法指代內戰監獄中的“不可越過”線,這在亞特森維爾監獄的邦聯指揮官亨利·維爾茲的審判中起了作用。
And he, the said Wirz, still wickedly pursuing his evil purpose, did establish and cause to be designated within the prison enclosure containing said prisoners a "dead line," being a line around the inner face of the stockade or wall enclosing said prison and about twenty feet distant from and within said stockade; and so established said dead line, which was in many places an imaginary line, in many other places marked by insecure and shifting strips of [boards nailed] upon the tops of small and insecure stakes or posts, he, the said Wirz, instructed the prison guard stationed around the top of said stockade to fire upon and kill any of the prisoners aforesaid who might touch, fall upon, pass over or under [or] across the said "dead line" .... ["Trial of Henry Wirz," Report of the Secretary of War, Oct. 31, 1865]
他,即上述的維爾茲,仍然邪惡地追求他的邪惡目的,在包含上述囚犯的監獄圍欄內部設立並指定了一條“死線”,即在圍繞該監獄的圍牆或牆壁的內側面上劃定的一條線,距離該圍欄或牆壁約二十英尺遠; 並且,他這樣設立了這條死線,這在許多地方是一條想象中的線,在許多其他地方則是由不安全和易變的木板條組成的,這些木板條被釘在小而不安全的樁子或柱子的頂部上; 他,即上述的維爾茲,指示駐紮在上述圍欄頂部的監獄警衛向任何觸碰、跌倒、越過或穿過上述“死線”的上述囚犯開火併殺死他們.... ["Trial of Henry Wirz," Report of the Secretary of War, Oct. 31, 1865]
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