因英国将军Cardigan伯爵James Thomas Brudenell在19世纪指挥英俄克里米亚战争时穿着而得名。
英文词源
cardigan
cardigan: [19] The cardigan was named after James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan (1797–1868), an early sporter of button-through woollen jackets. His other, but less successful, claim to fame was that he led the Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) at Balaclava during the Crimean War.
cardigan (n.)
1868, from James Thomas Brudenell (1797-1868), 7th Earl of Cardigan, English general distinguished in the Crimean War, who set the style, in one account supposedly wearing such a jacket while leading the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (1854). The place name is an anglicization of Welsh Ceredigion, literally "Ceredig's land." Ceredig lived 5c.
实用例句
1. The old man lifted his cardigan to scratch his side.
老人撩起开襟毛衣挠了挠身体的一侧。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Keep handy a lightweight sweater or cardigan.
手边备一件薄的套头毛衣或开襟毛衫。
来自柯林斯例句
3. I knitted this cardigan myself.
我自己织的这件开襟毛衣。
来自《权威词典》
4. Grace pulled her cardigan tightly about herself.
格雷斯把毛衣紧紧地裹在身上.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. At the end of the other arm of Cardigan Bay is Bardsey Island.