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一、mayday是什么意思

1、Mayday 求救信号

2、来自法语m’aider的英语俗化，缩写自venez m’aider,即come help me,来自venez,来，词源同come,venue,m’,我，词源同me,aider,帮助，词源同aid.后用于求救信号。

二、mayday的用法

1、mayday (interj.)

2、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]

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