英语词汇role的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	role
词源	role. An actor’s role in a play derives from the text an actor reads to learn his part. The Old French rolle meant a roll of manuscript. Actors learned their parts from plays written on such rolles and eventually their parts themselves became known as roles.
随便看	by the snakes of babylon by-two coffee shop béisbol bêche-de-mer bête noire b’hoy b’way c cab cabal caballero cabbage cabbage head cabbages and kings cabinet cablegram caboose caca cacao tree cachalot cachinnant cackle cackleberry caconym cactus

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