英语词汇quick mettle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	quick mettle
词源	quick mettle. High-spirited. Heard no more except on the stage, but used by Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1599). Brutus says it of the conspirator Casca: “He was quick mettle when he went to school.” Mettle is used today in the phrase on one’s mettle (accept any challenge and do one’s best).
随便看	the juice ain’t worth the squeeze the land up over the language of war is victims the lie of the pipe dream the li-on is busy the longest day the longest night the long telegram the lost dauphin the lost generation the mammon of unrighteousness the man of a thousand faces the man who broke the bank at monte carlo the man who invented a language the marshmallows of the sea the massachusetts game the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation the mckinley grip the mind-s eye the miracle of coogan-s bluff the miseries the missae a c missalis anatomia the moon is made of green cheese the moon-s reflection the most unkindest cut of all

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