A listener from Venezuela sent us a question about the meaning of the expression mayday. He wrote that he often hears this expression in movies.
一位来自委内瑞拉的听众向我们询问关于mayday这个词的释义。他说他在电影中经常听到这个词。
Mayday is an emergency code word. It is used around the world in voice communications. You might see a war movie in which an airplane has been hit by rocket fire. The pilot gets on his radio and calls "mayday, mayday, mayday" to tell that his plane is in danger of crashing to the ground.
mayday是紧急状况信号词。它通常应用于世界范围内的语音交流。您可能会看到一部战争片,其中一架飞机被导弹击中。飞行员在电台中呼叫" mayday, mayday , mayday"以表示他的飞机存在坠毁地面的危险。
Mayday has nothing to do with the month of May. It comes from the French expressions "venez m'aider," or "m'aidez," which mean "help me."
mayday与5月份没有任何联系。它出自法语““venez m'aider或“m'aidez,意思是“救救我。
Frederick Stanley Mockford created the mayday call signal in the nineteen twenties. Mockford was a radio officer at Croydon Airport in London. He was asked to think of a word that could be used in an emergency. The word had to be easily understood by all pilots and airport workers. Much of the air traffic at that time was between Croydon Airport and Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France. So he proposed the word mayday.
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