英语词汇wall-eyed的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wall-eyed
词源	wall-eyed. A wall-eyed person has an eye or eyes with unu- sually large white areas, making for defective sight. Shake- speare uses the old term, which dates back to the 14th century and is a corruption of the Icelandic vald eysthr, “having a beam in the eye,” and has nothing to do with walls, though no one really knows what the “beam” in the Icelandic word means.
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