英语词汇just deserts的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	just deserts
词源	just deserts. The expression, meaning something deserved or merited, has nothing to do with the word dessert, a sweet course served at the end of a meal, which comes from the French desservir, in its sense of “to merit by service.” The word desert for a wasteland derives from the Latin deserere “to leave uninhabited.”
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