| 词汇 | eerie |
| 词源 | eerie [ME] The word eerie ‘strange and frightening’ was originally northern English and Scots in the sense ‘fearful’. The focus then moved from feelings of fear to the cause of the fear. It probably comes from Old English earg ‘cowardly’. |
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