词汇 | quarters |
词根词缀 | 词源: "military dwelling place," 1591, from quarter (n.) in sense of "portion of a town." The military sense is in quartermaster (1442) and may be behind the phrase give (no) quarter (1611), on the notion of "to provide a prisoner with shelter." The verb quarter "to put up soldiers" is recorded from 1594. |
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