GI的词源

英文词源

GI

GI: [20] GI originated, around the beginning of the 20th century, as a US abbreviation of galvanized iron. It was soon in common use in the military, in contexts such as GI can, and the idea seems to have got about that it stood for not galvanized iron but government issue. This misconception propelled it into such combinations as GI shoe, GI soap and (facetiously) GI soldier. By the 1930s this had been shortened to simply GI, designating an enlisted man in the US Army.

中文词源

GI：美国兵

来自短语government issue, 即美国政府生产的武器装备，后用于指美国大兵。参照电影《特种部队：眼睛蛇的崛起》。

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