lexington

Lexington 是美国多个地名的名称，也特指美国独立战争初期的列克星敦战役。

💡 记忆钩子

把 Lexington 记成“一个地点的名字”：它首先是美国的地名；当语境谈到美国独立战争时，这个地点名又常指发生在那里的列克星敦战役。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“美国地名”这一基本义，再记住历史语境中的“列克星敦战役”义。
不要把 Lexington 当作普通名词翻译；它是专有名称，具体指哪个地点要看上下文。

📖 中文释义

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core 美国地名

📖 Lexington 可以是美国多个地方的名称；单独看到这个词时，通常需要结合州名或上下文判断具体是哪一个地方。

💡 常见模式是“Lexington, Massachusetts”或“in Lexington”。它作为地名使用，不加复数词尾，也不要把它当作普通地点名词使用；如果美国有多个同名地点，最好补充州名。

We are staying in Lexington, Massachusetts, for the weekend.

我们周末住在马萨诸塞州的列克星敦。

She moved to Lexington last year.

她去年搬到了列克星敦。
core 列克星敦战役

📖 在美国独立战争的历史语境中，Lexington 常指列克星敦战役，即独立战争初期发生在列克星敦的一场战斗。

💡 通常使用“the Battle of Lexington”这一模式，而不是单独用 Lexington 表示战役。它主要出现在历史叙述中；不要把它误解为另一个城市名称，看到“Battle of”时应优先理解为战役。

The Battle of Lexington marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

列克星敦战役标志着美国独立战争的开始。

Our class studied the Battle of Lexington yesterday.

我们班昨天学习了列克星敦战役。

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)

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a city in eastern Kentucky; noted for raising thoroughbred horses

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town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought

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🌳 词源

据说来自人名 Leaxa 加上表示“属于”的后缀和表示“聚居地”的词素。马萨诸塞州的 Lexington 可能以诺丁汉郡的 Laxton（旧拼法为 Lexington）命名，也可能与第二代 Lexinton 男爵 Robert Sutton 的爵位有关；美国其他同名城镇则以马萨诸塞州的 Lexington 命名。

From Lexington, one of several predecessory forms of Laxton, A village in Laxton and Moorhouse parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (see Laxton for further etymology). Lexington, Massachusetts was the original municipality of that name in the United States. The town in Massachusetts may have been named either (1) after the eponymous village in Nottinghamshire, England, once called by Lexington and sundry other forms thereof, and today truncated to Laxton, or (2) after Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton (whose title refers to the place in Nottinghamshire today known as Laxton). The other US cities and towns called Lexington, beginning with Lexington, Kentucky, were named after the town in Massachusetts, the site of an important Revolutionary War battle.

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