核心畫面

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」,bann更多收起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 entries for Star-Spangled Banner, packet etymology_text: "From a description of the United States flag in Defence of Fort McHenry by Francis Scott Key."

One branch

那面旗,和以它命名的那首歌

兩個用法共用同一個畫面,只是一個是布,一個是唱這塊布的歌。

noun · B2

A name for the flag of the United States, the one with stars and stripes on it.

星條旗(美國國旗)