英语词汇wan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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.
随便看	the peg the pen is mightier than the sword the penny drops the perfect word the peter principle the philippines the pits the plot thickens the popgun plot the powers that be the queen the quip modest the race is not to the swift the rat the cat and lovell the dog therblig there ain’t no horse that can’t be rode / there ain’t no man that can’t be throwed there are no atheists in foxholes there but for the grace of god goes god there but for the grace of god go i thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip

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