arsenal

• n. 兵工厂；军械库

来自阿拉伯语dar as-sina’ah. dar, 仓库。sina’ah，技艺，制造。进入意大利语指军火库。同英国阿森纳球队。

arsenal

arsenal: [16] The word arsenal has a complicated history, stretching back through Italian to Arabic. The Arabic original was dāras- sinā‘ah, literally ‘house of the manufacture’. This seems to have been borrowed into Venetian Italian, somehow losing its initial d, as arzaná, and been applied specifically to the large naval dockyard in Venice (which in the 15th century was the leading naval power in the Mediterranean).

The dockyard is known to this day as the Arzenale, showing the subsequent addition of the -al ending. English acquired the word either from Italian or from French arsenal, and at first used it only for dockyards (‘making the Arsenal at Athens, able to receive 1000 ships’, Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny’s Natural history 1601); but by the end of the 16th century it was coming into more general use as a ‘military storehouse’.

The English soccer club Arsenal gets its name from its original home in Woolwich, south London, where there used to be a British government arsenal.

arsenal (n.)

c. 1500, "dockyard, dock with naval stores," from Italian arzenale, from Arabic dar as-sina'ah "workshop," literally "house of manufacture," from dar "house" + sina'ah "art, craft, skill," from sana'a "he made."

Applied by the Venetians to a large wharf in their city, which was the earliest reference of the English word. Sense of "public place for making or storing weapons and ammunition" is from 1570s. The London football club (1886) was named for the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where the original players worked.

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2. They possess a formidable arsenal of rifles, machine guns, landmines and teargas.

他们持有的步枪、机枪、地雷和催泪弹数量惊人。

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3. The score at full-time was Arsenal 1, Sampdoria 1.

比赛结束时阿森纳队和桑普多利亚队1比1战平。

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4. David Seaman was back in the Arsenal goal after breaking a knuckle.

戴维·西曼在一个指关节骨折后又回到阿森纳队的球门前。

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5. He has more punches in his arsenal than other boxers.

他比其他拳击手出拳花样多。

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