| 词汇 | turn turtle |
| 词源 | turn turtle. British sailors in the Caribbean during the 17th century noticed that natives would capture huge sea turtles by turning them over, thereby rendering them helpless, when the creatures came ashore to bury their eggs. Later they used this image when they said that a capsized ship turned turtle, and soon the expression came to mean anything upside down. |
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