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)
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.
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)