| 词汇 | wan |
| 词源 | wan. This Chinese family name, whose Chinese character means “10,000,” has an apocryphal story attached to it. It’s said that when soothsayers advised the emperor Ch’in-Shih-Huang- Ti that he would not be able to finish the Great Wall of China until 10,000 more men were buried in it, the tyrannical emper- or found a man named Wan, had him buried in the Wall, and went on about his work. Wan for sad comes from the Old En- glish wann, dark, gloomy. |
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