英语词汇and thereby hangs a tale的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	and thereby hangs a tale
词源	and thereby hangs a tale. This has been the title of more than one book in modern times, though it is rarely used seri- ously anymore as a storytelling device. The expression goes back at least to the time of Shakespeare, who used it a number of times, notably in As You Like It. Here are Shakespeare’s words: And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.
随便看	wet one wet one-s beak wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows what fools these mortals be what goes around comes around what goes up must come down

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