英语词汇desultory的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	desultory
词源	desultory. Circus riders in ancient Rome jumped from one horse to another during their acts, which led to their being called desultors, or leapers, from the Latin salire, “to leap.” They were soon compared to people who fitfully jump from one idea to another in conversation, which resulted in the word desulto- rious, “to be inconsistent, beside the point,” the ancestor of our English word desultory.
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