| 词汇 | ride |
| 词源 | ride. To kid, to ridicule or harass. Both this word and the American underworld phrase take someone for a ride are first recorded at about the same time, around 1915. It has been sug- gested that the facetious ride derives from the sinister gangster expression meaning to force or entice someone into a car, take him to a lonely place, kill him, and dump him. To ride a person is of course not nearly so brutal as to take someone for a ride, but it isn’t especially pleasant, either. |
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