mayday

['me,de]

暢通詞匯

Mayday 求救信號

來自法語m’aider的英語俗化，縮寫自venez m’aider,即come help me,來自venez,來，詞源同come,venue,m’,我，詞源同me,aider,幫助，詞源同aid.后用于求救信號。

mayday (interj.): distress call, 1923, apparently an Englished spelling of French m'aider, shortening of venez m'aider "come help me!" But possibly a random coinage with coincidental resemblance:
"May Day" Is Airplane SOS
ENGLISH aviators who use radio telephone transmitting sets on their planes, instead of telegraph sets, have been puzzling over the problem of choosing a distress call for transmission by voice. The letters SOS wouldn't do, and just plain "help!" was not liked, and so "May Day" was chosen. This was thought particularly fitting since it sounds very much like the French m'aidez, which means "help me." ["The Wireless Age," June 1923]

1. He raced to pick up the lifejackets while his stepmother sent out a Mayday call.: 他的繼母發出無線電求救信號的時候，他飛跑著去拿救生衣。

2. Mayday! Mayday! - All right now, everybody, get in crash positions!: 救命! 救命! - 好的,現在, 所有人, 做好墜機姿勢!

3. Say someone Mayday are pseudo - rock, the place in the world someone would have the noise.: 有人說五月天是偽搖滾, 這個世界有人的地方就會有喧囂.

4. That's the purpose of MayDay – a grassroots effort whose goal is to save our archives.: 這就是災難救援——一種草根力量,其目標就是拯救我們的檔案.

5. Mayday , mayday , mayday, rear cabin door opened in flight, explosive depression in flight deck and cabin.: 遇險信號,后艙門在飛行中打開, 駕駛艙、客艙急劇減壓.