blighty: [20] Blighty is a legacy of British rule in India. Originally a term used by British soldiers serving in India for ‘home, Britain’, it is an anglicization of Hindi bilāyatī, which meant ‘foreign’, and particularly ‘European’. This was actually a borrowing from Arabic wilāyat ‘district, country’, which was independently acquired by English in the 19th century in its Turkish form vilayet. It was a derivative of the Arabic verb waliya ‘rule’, and is related to walī ‘ruler’.
雙語例句
1. See you back in Blighty!
回英國老家再見！
來自柯林斯例句
2. Darling, any news about our blighty? Is my mother feeling better?
親愛的, 老家有消息 嗎 ?我媽病好些了 嗎 ?
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. The soldier are sailing for old Blighty tomorrow.