英语词汇ravishing的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ravishing
词源	ravishing. In the “Winners & Sinners” bulletin he distributed to the New York Times staff, Theodore Bernstein (1904–79) criticized a Times headline that read elm beetle infestation ravishing thousands of trees in greenwich. “Keep your mind on your work, buster,” the editor wrote. “The word you want is ‘ravaging’.” He titled the piece “Insex.”
随便看	to bant to bedpost to beg to be or not to be to bishop tobit-s fish to bowl to break priscian-s head to climb parnassus to coot today i consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth toddy to die like a dog to err is human toe the line to form a firing squad in a circle to get in on the ground floor to go bush to go into an irish sulk to goose to go to the dogs to handbag to have a screw loose to hell or connaught to herd

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