| 词汇 | pupil |
| 词源 | pupil. The smallness of the mirror images seen on the pupil of the eye led to the pupil being named after the Latin pupilla, “little girl.” Our word pupil, for “a student,” comes from the Lat- in pupulus, or “little boy,” most pupils in days past having been little boys. |
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