英语词汇“yellow-cross gas”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

yellow cross n. now historical mustard gas, as used in chemical warfare by the German army during the First World War (1914–18); a shell containing this; usually attributive, esp. in yellow-cross gas.The gas was first used against Allied troops at Ypres on 12–13 July 1917. [After German Gelbkreuz (1918 or earlier, also in compounds such as Gelbkreuzgas yellow-cross gas), so called on account of the shells typically being marked with a painted yellow cross.]

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1918 Notes German Army Materiel (Amer. Expeditionary Forces) I. 23 L. F. K. Gr. Gelbkreuz. (Lange Feld Kanonengranate Gelbkreuz). A gas shell of the same type as the long H. E. shell known as the ‘Yellow Cross’.

1918 N.Y. Times 18 July 1/2 Symptoms of sickness make us [sc. the German army] suppose that the enemy is using a new gas which resembles our ‘yellow cross’.

1918 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Dec. 1911/2 (heading) Mustard (yellow cross) burns.

1928 Observer 25 Mar. 17/5 The Germans..still possessed the advantage of their new methods of artillery and the new yellow-cross gas, not yet adopted by the enemy.

1997 H. H. Herwig First World War x. 414 Yellow Cross (mustard) gas, on the other hand, was to target supply dumps or entire army corps, for it lingered in the air and clung to the ground and water for days and even weeks.

单词	yellow-cross gas
释义	> as lemmas yellow-cross gas yellow cross n. now historical mustard gas, as used in chemical warfare by the German army during the First World War (1914–18); a shell containing this; usually attributive, esp. in yellow-cross gas.The gas was first used against Allied troops at Ypres on 12–13 July 1917. [After German Gelbkreuz (1918 or earlier, also in compounds such as Gelbkreuzgas yellow-cross gas), so called on account of the shells typically being marked with a painted yellow cross.] ΚΠ 1918 Notes German Army Materiel (Amer. Expeditionary Forces) I. 23 L. F. K. Gr. Gelbkreuz. (Lange Feld Kanonengranate Gelbkreuz). A gas shell of the same type as the long H. E. shell known as the ‘Yellow Cross’. 1918 N.Y. Times 18 July 1/2 Symptoms of sickness make us [sc. the German army] suppose that the enemy is using a new gas which resembles our ‘yellow cross’. 1918 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Dec. 1911/2 (heading) Mustard (yellow cross) burns. 1928 Observer 25 Mar. 17/5 The Germans..still possessed the advantage of their new methods of artillery and the new yellow-cross gas, not yet adopted by the enemy. 1997 H. H. Herwig First World War x. 414 Yellow Cross (mustard) gas, on the other hand, was to target supply dumps or entire army corps, for it lingered in the air and clung to the ground and water for days and even weeks. extracted from yellowadj.n. < as lemmas
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