词汇 | all that glitters is not gold |
词源 | all that glitters is not gold. “Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold,” French theologian Alain de Lille wrote as far back as the 12th century. Since then Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare have all contributed variations on the saying. Its present form originated with English author John Dryden in his The Hind and the Panther (1687): “All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.” |
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