dreadnought的词源

英文词源

Dreadnought (n.)

"battleship," literally "fearing nothing," from dread (v.) + nought (n.). Mentioned as the name of a ship in the Royal Navy c. 1596, but modern sense is from the name of the first of a new class of British battleships, based on the "all big-gun" principle (armed with 10 big guns rather than 4 large guns and a battery of smaller ones), launched Feb. 18, 1906.

中文词源

dreadnought：（20世纪初期）无畏舰

dread, 恐惧。nought, 零，没有。用于战舰名。

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