[...]11Frederick Stanley Mockford created the mayday call signal in the nineteen twenties. Mockford was a radio officer at Croydon fontfont> >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.

[...]1120世纪20年代，Frederick Stanley Mockford创造这个求救呼叫信号。 Mockford是伦敦Croydon机场的无线电报务员。他被要求想出一个可以在紧急情况下使用的词，这个词也必须很容易被所有飞行员和机场工作人员理解。那时候的航空运输大部分是在Croydon机场和法国巴黎附近的Le Bourget机场之间进行。于是，他提出了mayday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 font >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 font >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。”

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-Words and Their Stories: Mayday

Today, many groups use the word to mean a life-threatening emergency. The call is always given three times to prevent font >mistaking it for some similar sounding words.

今天，许多组织都使用这个词来表示一种危及生命的紧急情况。这种呼叫总是重复3次，以防止与一些类似发音的词混淆。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-Words and Their Stories: Mayday

A listener from Venezuela sent us a question about the meaning of the expression mayday. He wrote that he often hears this font >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。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-Words and Their Stories: Mayday