麵團小子
麵團小子(Doughboy)是第一次世界大戰期間美軍步兵的一個外號[1][2]。這個名字雖然起源不明,但一直被使用到1940年代初。例如,Dennis Day、Kenny Baker 、Kay Kyser等音樂人就曾在1942年錄製過一首名為「麵團小子約翰尼在愛爾蘭找到了一朵玫瑰」(Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland)的歌曲;1942年還出過一部名為「麵團小子約翰尼」(Johnny Doughboy)的電影;《軍事漫畫》(Military Comics)中還有個叫「麵團小子約翰尼」(Johnny Doughboy)的角色[3]。第二次世界大戰期間,美軍的「麵團小子」綽號逐漸被「G.I.」所取代。[4][5]
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參考文獻
- ^ The American Heritage Desk Dictionary 5th. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013: 255. ISBN 978-0-547-70813-3. OCLC 768728947.
- ^ Beale, Paul (ed.) (1989) A Concise History of Slang and Unconventional English: From "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" by Eric Partridge New York: Macmillan. p.134. ISBN 9780026053501
- ^ Blogger, Misty. Golden Reading: Military Man: Johnny Doughboy. goldenreadingdomain.blogspot.com. 5 February 2012 [2024-04-23]. (原始內容存檔於2024-04-23).
- ^ Evans, Ivor H. (ed.) (1981) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable New York: Harper & Row, p.353 ISBN 0-06-014903-5
- ^ George, John B. (1948) Shots Fired In Anger, Samworth Press. pp.xi, xii, 21. Lt. John George, an Army officer writing a World War II autobiographical postwar combat memoir in May 1947, freely used the term to describe himself and his fellow U.S. Army infantrymen.