英语词汇trice的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	trice
词源	trice [ME] Unlike most tri- words, trice has nothing to do with ‘three’. It comes from early Dutch trisen ‘to pull sharply, hoist’, and in the Middle Ages at a trice meant ‘at one pull or tug’ rather than ‘in a moment, immediately’. By the early 16th century the original form of the expression had given way to the more familiar in a trice.
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