| 词汇 | quiz |
| 词源 | quiz. A short test. The tale may be apocryphal, but it’s said that in the late 18th century Dublin theater manager James Daly bet that he could invent and introduce a new meaningless word into the language almost overnight. He proceeded to pay Dublin urchins to chalk the word quiz on every wall in town. By morning almost all Dubliners had seen the word, and be- cause no one knew what it meant, the meaningless quiz became the word for “a test of knowledge.” |
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