campaign: [17] Ultimately, campaign and champagne are the same word. Both go back to late Latin campānia, a derivative of Latin campus ‘open field’ (source of English camp). This passed into Old French as champagne and into Italian as campagna ‘open country’, and both words have subsequently come to be used as the designation of regions in France and Italy (whence English champagne [17], wine made in the Champagne area of eastern France).
The French word was also borrowed into English much earlier, as the now archaic champaign ‘open country’ [14]. Meanwhile, in Italian a particular military application of campagna had arisen: armies disliked fighting in winter because of the bad weather, so they stayed in camp, not emerging to do battle in the open countryside (the campagna) until summer. Hence campagna came to mean ‘military operations’; it was borrowed in to French as campagne, and thence into English. => camp, champagne
campaign (n.)
1640s, "operation of an army in the field," during a single season, in a particular region, or in a definite enterprise; from French campagne "campaign," literally "open country," from Old French champagne "countryside, open country" (suited to military maneuvers), from Late Latin campania "level country" (source of Italian campagna, Spanish campa?a, Portuguese campanha), from Latin campus "a field" (see campus). Old armies spent winters in quarters and took to the "open field" to seek battle in summer. Extension of meaning to "political activity before an election, marked by organized action in influencing the voters" [DAE] is American English, 1809.
campaign (v.)
1701, from campaign (n.). Political sense is from 1801. Related: Campaigned; campaigning.
雙語例句
1. The strike has taken on overtones of a civil rights campaign.
罷工帶上了民權(quán)運動的意味。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Perot hoped to run another series of campaign infomercials.
佩羅期待著新一輪的競選宣傳節(jié)目的播出。
來自柯林斯例句
3. It condemned in extremely strong language what it called Britain's iniquitous campaign.
它言辭激烈地譴責了這場它所謂的英國極不公正的競選活動。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Now he plans to rev up publicity with a regional media campaign.
現(xiàn)在他準備通過開展地區(qū)性的媒體活動加大宣傳力度。
來自柯林斯例句
5. The campaign has abounded in mutual accusations of uncivilised behaviour.