那面旗，和以它命名的那首歌
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US flag · noun
A name for the flag of the United States, the one with stars and stripes on it.
星條旗（美國國旗）
Picture a flag that is still there at first light: wide stripes, and one corner covered in stars. Star-spangled means with stars, and a banner is a flag, so the name is a description of that cloth and nothing else. Everything this name does comes from that one picture - the flag itself, and the song that borrowed the phrase to talk about it.
可以想成天剛亮時還掛在那裡的那面旗：寬寬的條紋，角落綴滿星星。star-spangled 是「灑滿星星的」，banner 是旗，所以這個名字本身就是在描寫那塊布。字典記的來源是 Francis Scott Key 的詩 Defence of Fort McHenry，詩裡寫的正是這面旗。這個名字今天的兩個用法，都是從那一個畫面出來的：旗子本身，還有借用這句描寫當名字的那首歌。
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records the name as coming from a description of the United States flag in Defence of Fort McHenry by Francis Scott Key. The flag came first; the song took its name from the words about the flag.
字典記載這個名字來自 Francis Scott Key 的詩 Defence of Fort McHenry 裡對美國國旗的描寫。順序是先有旗、先有那句描寫，歌名才從那裡來，所以把旗子當成起點來理解這個名字最順。
Wiktionary, "Star-Spangled Banner"
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