| 词汇 | right stuff |
| 词源 | right stuff. The British were using this phrase a century ago to describe good soldiers, mainly in the form of “the right sort of stuff.” American author Tom Wolfe made it popular again with his book The Right Stuff (1979), which described the char- acter, intelligence, etc., needed by U.S. astronauts. |
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