| 词汇 | desk |
| 词源 | desk. Voltaire is said to have written some of his love poems in bed, using his mistress’s back for a desk. But a more desir- able desk (which derives from the medieval Latin desca mean- ing the same) is one made by Thomas Chippendale (c. 1718– 79) that sold for $195,000 at last report. |
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