| 词汇 | waterloo |
| 词源 | Waterloo. One who meets his Waterloo suffers a complete and final defeat, just as Napoleon did in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, about nine miles from Brussels in Belgium. The bat- tle was actually fought a few miles south of Waterloo, between Mont-Saint-Jean and Bellenoon. |
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