面团小子

面团小子(Doughboy)是第一次世界大战期间美军步兵的一个外号[1][2]。这个名字虽然起源不明,但一直被使用到1940年代初。例如,Dennis Day、Kenny Baker 、Kay Kyser等音乐人就曾在1942年录制过一首名为“面团小子约翰尼在爱尔兰找到了一朵玫瑰”(Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland)的歌曲;1942年还出过一部名为“面团小子约翰尼”(Johnny Doughboy)的电影;《军事漫画》(Military Comics)中还有个叫“面团小子约翰尼”(Johnny Doughboy)的角色[3]第二次世界大战期间,美军的“面团小子”绰号逐渐被“G.I.”所取代。[4][5]

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参考文献

  1. ^ The American Heritage Desk Dictionary 5th. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013: 255. ISBN 978-0-547-70813-3. OCLC 768728947. 
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Blogger, Misty. Golden Reading: Military Man: Johnny Doughboy. goldenreadingdomain.blogspot.com. 5 February 2012 [2024-04-23]. (原始内容存档于2024-04-23). 
  4. ^ Evans, Ivor H. (ed.) (1981) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable New York: Harper & Row, p.353 ISBN 0-06-014903-5
  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.