英语词汇crestfallen的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	crestfallen
词源	crestfallen. A term from the ancient “sport” of cockfighting, crestfallen refers to a defeated bird that stands waiting for the death blow with crest fallen to its beak, no longer erect and proud. Shakespeare appears to have been the first writer to ap- ply the term to humans, in Henry VI (1593). See show the white feather.
随便看	itchy trigger finger it didn’t jell it doesn’t go on all fours i throw a shoe at you it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle it might have been it must have been one of the nuts it rains on the just and unjust alike i trust it-s nothing trivial its it-s a great life if you don’t weaken it-s all in a day-s work it-s all over but the shouting it-s all worth it including the final crash it-s always the best swimmers that drown it-s a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but i think you’ll be amused by its presumptions it-s a new ball game it-s chess not checkers it-s greek to me it-s how you played the game it smells of the lamp it-s naughty but it-s nice it-s not brain surgery it-s not cricket it-s not funny

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