| 词汇 | verse |
| 词源 | verse. Poems are of course almost always written in straight lines across a page, each line turning at the end into a new line. This suggested the synonym for “poem,” verse, which comes from the Latin versus, a form of the Latin vertere, “to turn.” Verse is recorded in English as far back as 1200 and today often means light pieces of poetry. |
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