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单词 Blighty
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Blighty

/ˈblaɪtɪ/
noun
1
Brit. an informal and often affectionate term for Britain or England, chiefly as used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars
〈英〉英国老家(多作两次世界大战时士兵对不列颠或英格兰的非正式昵称)。
1.1
military slang a wound suffered by a soldier in the First World War which was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain
〈军俚〉(第一次世界大战期间)可以被送回英国医治的伤:

he had copped a Blighty and was on his way home.

他负了伤, 正被送回英国治疗。

词源
first used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī 'foreign, European', from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya 'dominion, district'.
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